He will enter a complex web of diplomatic relations, where
issues like trade, finance, migration, security, poverty, food aid and disaster
relief are all intertwined and all have important links to the climate agenda.
It's a world already dealing with significant climate impacts and sold on
climate action.
"I am struck by the shift over the last few years in
how the global community puts climate change on its agenda," Jonathan
Pershing, President Obama's special envoy on climate, told InsideClimate News.
"It is now virtually everywhere."
Since the signing of the Paris Agreement a year ago,
addressing climate change has remained a major imperative for most of the
world's nations. Enough countries quickly ratified the accord so that it
entered into force early, in November. Shortly after Trump's surprising
election, delegates from virtually every country in the world gathered in
Marrakech to start putting the Paris treaty immediately into action.
Read the Inside
Climate News story - “2017: Trump Peddles Climate Doubt in a World Sold on Action.”
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