What To Expect In Doha: An Overview of This Year’s UN Climate
Change Negotiations The next high-level gathering of parties to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) started this week in Doha, Qatar, running until
December 7th. Here we overview the upcoming talks and what the
results of US elections may mean for the Obama administration’s
positions during them. What does the US election mean for US
climate action? As the delegates in Doha gather, questions
abound concerning the intentions of the US now that the election
is over. The re-election of President Obama and members of
congress that voted to defend the administration’s ability to
act on global warming is an affirmation of an agenda
prioritizing clean energy and climate change. Just as
importantly, the American public’s belief in global warming has
never been higher growing to 70 percent. More than three-
quarters of US voters want elected officials to take steps to
address global warming. There was also a significant increas