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Cop22 After Trump

| November 21, 2016

On the Monday before the U.S. presidential election, climate negotiators gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, to begin the long, hard process of implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. But all eyes were on the United States, and when the news that Donald Trump had won the election hit Marrakesh early Wednesday morning, it was not well received.

Under U.S. President Barack Obama, the United States had forged an important alliance with China to put forth more ambitious climate policies and to move the world toward signing the momentous Paris Agreement last year. That comity was still on display in Marrakesh, but little else of consequence has happened so far, other than strategizing about how to respond to the U.S. election results....

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For Academic Citation: Wagner, Gernot and David Keith.“Cop22 After Trump.” Foreign Affairs, November 21, 2016.

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David Keith

David Keith

  • Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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