UNGA80 reporters' notebook: Day 4

Bahamas PM pledges to fight climate change — with or without the US

By Jesse Chase-Lubitz, 4:33 p.m. ET

If you’re not watching too closely, it might be easy to assume that global action on climate change is on its way out. On Tuesday, Trump spent a significant amount of his time speaking to the U.N. General Assembly disparaging climate action. He called it a “scam” and a “con” — and called climate scientists at the U.N. “stupid people.”

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