“Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable.” So said President Biden’s climate advisor John Podesta as the international climate negotiations known as COP29 got started Monday. Ironically, the United Nations talks are hosted this year by Azerbaijan, a huge oil and gas exporter, as the Associated Press’ Emma Burrows reports.

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Beneath the brave words at the president-elect’s victory were real worries that action will stall without the United States.

The US will still continue fighting climate change and curbing its emissions of planet-warming gases despite the election of Donald Trump, the US special envoy told the COP29 conference on its opening day.