UN Climate Talks Wrap Up with World Leaving Trump Behind.

Two weeks of international climate talks in Bonn made only incremental progress toward resolving disputes that have been lingering since the Paris Agreement of 2015. The main achievement may have been cementing a firebreak to prevent the Trump administration from torching the whole process.

While protesters outside the UN climate talks urged an end to coal, a
broad range of climate supporters spoke up inside, including U.S. states,
 cities and businesses that support great global ambition to rein in climate change.

The strategy is to assert a broad new leadership among nations big and small, to bolster their resolve with high-profile commitments from American cities and states, to muster corporations and financial institutions in an attempt to kickstart renewable energy and assist poor countries, and to leave Washington isolated on the world stage.

It's a strategy pinned on the hopes—although diplomats would never put it so bluntly—that either Donald Trump will change his mind or that the United States will change its leader.

Read the Inside Climate News story by John H. Cushman Jr - “UN Climate Talks Wrap Up with World Leaving Trump Behind.”