Beyond the measures announced to help fight fires in the Amazon (see other news), there was no progress on the climate front at the G7 summit in Biarritz, nor any hope of convincing US President Donald Trump to return to the Paris Agreement. The latter did not participate in the discussions on climate change and biodiversity on the morning of Monday 26 August.
The goal was to prepare for the UN ‘Climate Action Summit’ to be held on 23 September in New York, which will aim to raise the...