Dept. Of Why Bother: Obama Appointee Will Lead US "Participation" In Next Climate Talks
The official who will lead the US delegation at the first major climate meeting of the Trump presidency will be under secretary of state for political affairs Thomas Shannon, a career diplomat.
The state department confirmed to Climate Home News that Obama appointee Shannon would represent the US at the high-level segment of the UN COP23 talks in Bonn, Germany next month.
It will be the first rejoining of climate negotiators since Trump announced the US planned to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, which the US signed along with almost 200 other nations in 2015.
In 2015, Shannon called climate change “one of the world’s great challenges”. In 2016, he gave interviews in the Indian press in which he called for the south Asian nation to speedily ratify the Paris deal.
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