The 29th Congress of the United Nations on Climate Finance will begin without leaders and Trump looms large

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold its next round of climate talks, which will be held in Paris from December 2 to 11. Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, 196 countries had agreed to limit global warming to “safe levels” before the end of the century. However, the US recently announced it would pull out of the pact.