EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said the U.S. retreat on green commitments will damage the potential for global impact as well as the overall mood at the upcoming COP30 talks in Brazil, but that it points to new "partnerships and opportunities” for other nations to forge progress.
The U.S. said on Friday that it will not send high-level officials to the United Nations-sponsored events, which start next week in the Amazonian city of Belem. President Donald Trump in January initiated the country’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, a process that takes a year.
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