Trump turns up heat on UK’s climate leadership bid

By Charlie Cooper | 11/13/2024 06:10 AM EST

Keir Starmer flies into COP29 overshadowed by Donald Trump’s reelection. Does the climate-conscious British prime minister have the will (and the cash) to fill a climate leadership vacuum?

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Just by turning up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Keir Starmer is sending a signal.

The U.K. prime minister wants to show that — whatever else is going on in the world — his new government cares about the global fight against climate change.

That fight, Starmer said last year, is “probably the single biggest issue” facing the world.

But is anyone listening?

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