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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Oliver Milman

No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say

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Climate activists march across the Brooklyn Bridge to demand a halt to the construction of the Williams Pipeline, on 9 August 2025. Photograph: Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images

The Trump administration has confirmed that no high-level representatives will be sent by the US to upcoming UN climate talks in Brazil, underscoring the administration’s hostile stance towards action on the climate crisis.

The US has always sent delegations of various sizes to UN climate summits over the past three decades, even during periods under George W Bush and in Donald Trump’s first term, where there was scant desire to address the global heating crisis.

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