"A handful of U.S. researchers joined a critical meeting on climate and cities this week in Japan. “For me, this process is so important that if I had to self-fund, I would,” said one."
"Despite a series of directives from the Trump administration aimed at disengaging the U.S. government from international climate collaboration, five U.S. scientists are part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s team of 100 experts from 50 countries who met in Osaka, Japan, this week to start writing a report about global warming and cities that is due in 2027.
Their participation highlights how U.S. researchers will continue to add expertise and have a voice in the international climate science community, but also how the administration’s hostility toward international collaboration will make it more difficult for U.S. scientists to engage with the global effort to study climate change.
The IPCC is resilient and can effectively perform its scientific work even if the U.S. is politically disengaged from the process, said Kevin Gurney, an atmospheric scientist at Northern Arizona University who is part of the contingent of U.S. scientists at the Osaka IPCC meeting and has worked on every IPCC assessment since the first one in 1990."
Bob Berwyn reports for Inside Climate News March 15, 2025.
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