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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Laurent THOMET

Lame-duck US Climate Team Vows To Be 'Effective' At COP29

US officials vow to be 'effective' participants at COP29 despite the election climate-sceptic Donald Trump (Credit: AFP)

They may be out of a job when Donald Trump takes office in two months, but US officials kept a busy schedule at UN climate talks, reminding jittery countries that global action had survived his first term.

President Joe Biden's lame-duck climate envoy, John Podesta, scurried back and forth to meetings and events across the cavernous halls of the COP29 conference in Baku.

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