Former Vice President Al Gore, a longtime champion of strong action on climate change, said Mr. Trump represented a minority view on the subject. “President Trump does not speak for the country as a whole on the climate issue,” Mr. Gore said. “Of course he’s our president, of course he has the authority that any president has. Christiana Figueres, a former United Nations climate envoy who spent her morning with the shadow American delegation, said the Trump administration was sending the wrong message to a conference aimed at decarbonizing the global economy. Jim Lakely, a spokesman for the Heartland Institute, said he hoped United Nations climate delegates would also hear his group’s message.

Source: New York Times November 11, 2017 16:15 UTC