He has attended the past two summits and calls climate change “the ultimate threat” but will miss the talks that are set to begin in Dubai on Thursday.
For context, this climate summit is being run by an oil executive
He’s capable. It’s just being run by an oil executive, and not likely to accomplish much, in large part because several high-emissions countries don’t want to sign on to anything even as mild as a phase-out of “unabated” fossil fuel use.
He’s capable. It’s just being run by an oil executive, and not likely to accomplish much, in large part because several high-emissions countries don’t want to sign on to anything even as mild as a phase-out of “unabated” fossil fuel use.
He’s also sending the guy who’s job this is (John Kerry) in his place. This is about as big of a nothingburger as can be