The New York Times, on Climate, 11 November 2026

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The United States Is Skipping COP31 in Turkey

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As world leaders begin addressing the United Nations climate summit today in Antalya, Turkey, 197 nations will be represented. From Albania to Zimbabwe, heads of state and governments and top ministers will commit to the global goal of a livable planet. But not the United States. For the second year in a row, the most powerful country on Earth and the largest contributor of planet-warming emissions in history has refused to participate in the global effort to slow climate change.

President Trump, who called global warming the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” withdrew the United States from the 2015 Paris climate agreement and stopped sending American delegations to the annual negotiations, known this year as COP31. The United States is no longer trying to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, has cut support for scientific research into global warming and halted funding to help vulnerable countries cope with the impacts of climate change.

That’s left the rest of the world scrambling to fill the vacuum. “Look, whenever the mic was on, and it was the turn of the U.S. to speak, we all listened,” said Yaw Bediako Osafo, a negotiator from Ghana who is leading a group of African countries in the talks. “Now the world’s superpower is pulling out and saying, ‘Well, we’re not going to be involved.’” The political climate in the United States changed abruptly last week, as Democrats dominated the midterms.

The new Congress controlled by Democrats will have limited power to enact climate policies with Mr. Trump still in office. But Democrats said they intend to rein in the Trump administration, which has promoted fossil fuels and waged attacks on the clean energy industry. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.

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The New York Times reports that the United States is absent from COP31 in Antalya for a second year. It sets out what the Trump administration has done on climate and quotes a Ghanaian negotiator on the gap this leaves. The text supplied is cut off by a paywall notice, and nothing in the part we can read misleads the reader.

What it gets right

  • “the largest contributor of planet-warming emissions in history”

    The Times states in its own voice that emissions warm the planet and names the United States as the largest historical emitter, with no hedge on the science.

  • “who called global warming the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,””

    The Times reports Trump's denial as his own quoted words. It gives the denial no weight as a counterpoint to the science the article states as fact.

  • “is no longer trying to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, has cut support for scientific research into global warming and halted funding to help vulnerable countries cope with the impacts of climate change”

    The Times names the concrete policy acts rather than a vague retreat, so the reader knows what the withdrawal means in practice.

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