Narrative that too much "is being made of climate change is increasingly gaining ground"
• Nov 6, 2025, 4:35 PM
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The COP30 global climate summit is opening on November 10, but the world's top polluters will not be attending - including the US, with Trump calling climate change a "socialist hoax". But while he would have been laughed at a few years ago, the narrative that too much is being made of climate change "is increasingly gaining ground", says FRANCE 24's Angela Diffley.
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