The impacts of the Trump administration’s move to pull the US out of a major United Nations climate report became clear at a meeting late last month in Bangkok.
With the US absent, dozens of governments discussed the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s next series of influential reports. The meeting previewed some of the challenges the group faces without substantial US involvement, notably a budget shortfall. But it also showed where other countries can play bigger roles, including European nations and China.
The US has long been the world’s scientific powerhouse. But the Trump administration has