“To be clear: the US election result is a blow in the fight against the climate crisis. The window to limit warming to 1.5°C is closing—these next 4 years are critical. But let’s not despair. The Paris Agreement has proven resilient, stronger than any one country’s policies,” wrote economist Laurence Toubiana on X, a negotiator of the Paris Agreement in 2015, which Donald Trump opposed as soon as he was elected and withdrew the U.S. from in 2017.

On the eve of the COP29 U.N. climate conference in Baku, Toubiana’s view, along with those of other experts and policymakers, was collected by Unclimatesummit.org, a website run by Periodistas por el Planeta and ClimaInfo. Also on X, America Is All In, the U.S. Climate Alliance and Climate Mayors, three major U.S. climate action coalitions (involving states, local governments, Native communities, etc.), announced with one voice: “We will not waver. We will not turn back.”

Mary Robinson, former Chair of the Elders (an organization founded by Nelson Mandela) and former Irish Prime Minister, expressed her hope that “that the recent hurricanes in the United States have caused President Trump to rethink his........

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