Analysis: Nearly a tenth of global climate finance threatened by Trump aid cuts
At the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China, governments failed for a third time to agree to a timeline for the next round of UN climate science reports, according to Climate Home News.
The absence of US federal scientists “cast a shadow” over the IPCC meeting, report the Financial Times.
This chart, from Carbon Brief’s in-depth coverage of the meeting, highlights that the US has provided around 30% of the voluntary contributions to the IPCC’s financial budgets since it was established in 1988.