A Climate Summit Without the U.S. Government? At the United Nations’ 30th climate summit — COP30, being held in Brazil — world leaders are now meeting to discuss action on the climate crisis. The U.S. delegation is notably absent, due to the Trump administration’s climate denial, so staff from the Center and other American organizations traveled to Belém to advocate for action in their place. The world shouldn’t “allow a bully like Trump to derail decades of negotiations,” the Center’s Jean Su told Scripps News. We’re at the conference, said Jean, “to represent the majority who care passionately about having clean air, clean water, and a safe climate future.” Who else will we be advocating for? We put together a factsheet highlighting just a handful of species threatened by the climate crisis. Read it on our website — link in bio! [Video description: A pika (a small, brown mammal with rounded ears) scampers back and forth from its den, fast and alert. At one point, it grabs a cr...