https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20261104-us-lawmakers-will-go-to-un-climate-talks-in-turkey
Excerpt: The United States is not taking part in the negotiations after President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the Paris agreement for a second time upon returning to office.
But Representative Sean Casten of Illinois said the 19-member delegation would nevertheless play an “important diplomatic function” at COP31 which runs from November 9 to 20 in Antalya.
“We will not, of course, be in the majority at that point, but we will be received with the understanding of what just happened,” Casten told a press call.
He said it was important not to be naive, given the United States’ failure to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and its two exits from the Paris agreement under Trump.
“But I think also there’s a real value in us being able to convey to the world, number one, that America has spoken, and number two, that so many of the challenges we face are the same,” he said, citing climate refugees, financial volatility caused by climate change, and the need to decarbonize economies, especially given the Iran war.
