Trump Creates Uncertainty for World’s Most Cited Climate Report
Delegates to a key UN-backed climate meeting this week will be forced to consider what their future work might look like without US government participation.
A still life of pedestrians during a heatwave.
Photographer: Tonje Thilesen/BloombergClimate diplomats beginning work on the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the crucial assessment on global warming that helps shape policy for governments to companies — are meeting in China this week without US officials.
US government scientists participating in the IPCC’s global assessments were issued a stop-work order from the Trump administration, according to media reports late last week. NASA’s chief scientist Kate Calvin, who holds a leadership role in the new report cycle, is not attending the meeting, a spokesperson from the space agency said on Monday.