Europe still wants to talk to Donald Trump about global warming, which the incoming U.S. president has called a “hoax.”
“We have a long tradition of working successfully with both Democrats and Republicans, and we’re going to stick to that tradition,” European Union Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said in an interview with journalists from several news outlets Friday.
Hoekstra spoke ahead of the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan, which begin Monday. But overshadowing the annual U.N. gathering is the prospect of the world’s largest economy withdrawing from the 2015 Paris Agreement — a promise Trump made during the campaign. The agreement sets a global goal of keeping warming well below 2 degrees Celsius.
