Let’s not sugarcoat things. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election represents a setback for climate action. The incoming administration has been very clear that it does not prioritize confronting climate change,

The CEO of ExxonMobil said President-elect Trump should keep the U.S. in the Paris climate agreement during his second term in the White House.

The UN COP meetings are an annual chance for nearly 200 nations to get together to discuss (and hopefully act on) climate change. Greatest hits from the talks include the Paris Agreement, a 2015 global accord that set a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) above preindustrial levels.

The timing of Donald Trump’s election victory, a few days before the opening of the COP29 global climate conference, could not have been worse, casting a long shadow over the 50,000 delegates gathered in Baku.

Many of Trump’s anti-environmental and climate policies will likely be tempered at home and abroad by states, governments and even fossil fuel executives

Trump allies have floated plans targeting the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, where many of NOAA's climate scientists work.

For climate activists, the current moment is almost unbearably bleak. But the task is clear: to build a mass movement that completely overhauls our current political system.

The election result bodes well for state and local action on climate—even during a second Trump term. It’s no secret that this year’s election results don’t bode well for the climate, as Donald Trump has promised to gut federal regulations and roll back recent progress at the national level.

Voters across the U.S. West granted efforts to combat climate change resounding wins in state- and local-level ballot measures, amid expectations that the incoming Trump administration will roll back federal environmental protections.

The president-elect says the long-standing vaccine sceptic will "make America healthy again", in his first speech since election night.

And the first foreign leader to meet Trump there in person - since last week’s election result - is due to make a speech. The self-styled libertarian Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, has made it clear he’s a fan of Trump with the feeling appearing to be mutual.

Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has a long history of distorting and denying climate research while on the air at the cable news channel. That tracks with Trump’s dismissal of global warming as a “hoax.”