A Upcoming COP-out? Global Climate Goals at Risk as Biggest polluters Balk

As COP29, this year’s UN climate conference, approaches, Doug McIntyre discusses the bleak outlook for climate action due to foot-dragging by the world’s largest emitters. COP’s mission to unite nearly 200 nations to tackle climate change faces significant obstacles even before it begins, with President-Elect Donald Trump’s continued resistance to the Paris Agreement signaling a lack of support from the U.S., the third-largest global polluter. Meanwhile, China and India, the world’s first- and second-largest emitters, also show little interest in cutting pollution.