Last year’s congressional attendance at the annual U.N. climate summit was among the largest and most politically diverse ever, with members of both parties and chambers eager to showcase Capitol Hill’s contributions to helping solve the climate crisis.
But the number of lawmakers at the upcoming gathering in Baku, Azerbaijan — known as COP29 — will be significantly scaled down.
The elections, the legislative calendar and the political dynamics surrounding the host country will amount to a bare-bones congressional presence on the ground in November for the climate talks, based on current plans shared with POLITICO’s E&E News this week.
International negotiators are mulling consequential new agreements that will require buy-in from the federal government.
