Can the world fight climate change without the US? Donald Trump’s election victory threatens to derail the COP29 climate talks taking place in Azerbaijan this week. The US is one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon emissions but the president-elect has called global warming a hoax, championed the oil industry and promised to withdraw from international climate agreements. On this episode, Lucy Hockings speaks to the BBC’s US climate correspondent Carl Nasman and the host of the BBC podcast The Climate Question, Graihagh Jackson. Producers: Peter Goffin, Alice Aylett Roberts and Beth Timmins Sound engineers: Jonny Baker and Ricardo McCarthy Assistant editor: Sergi Forcada Freixas Senior news editor: Sara Wadeson
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This is the global story.
Representatives of nearly 200 countries are in Azerbaijan for COP 29.
That's the UN summit on climate change at their best.
These annual talks are a chance for the most powerful people on Earth to take on an existential crisis and chart a course for action.
But this year's conference will almost certainly be defined by a man who isn't even there.
All of this with the global warming and that a lot of it's a hoax.
It's a hoax.
I mean, it's a money making industry, okay?
It's a hoax.
US President elect Donald Trump has promised to pull out of international climate pacts and slash environmental regulations as soon as he's back in the White House.
So where does that leave COP 29?