The UN's climate science body, the IPCC, is proceeding with its agenda despite the US government's withdrawal earlier this year. IPCC chair Jim Skea noted that most member countries still participate, while highlighting China's leadership in renewable energy.

The UN’s climate science body is pressing ahead with its work despite the US government’s withdrawal from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this year, the organisation’s top official has said. According to IPCC chair Jim Skea, around 110 to 120 of the UN body’s 195 members typically show up when it meets. “So the US has not been there. It’s one country, more or less,” Skea said on the sidelines of the Regional Ecological Summit in Kazakhstan last week. “The meetings...