Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Even though governments agreed last year to move away from fossil fuels, there has been a defiant tone at this year's summit with Ilham Aliyev, president of the host country, Azerbaijan, calling oil and gas a "gift of God" and Argentina, led by the populist president Javier Milei, quitting the negotiations amid speculation the country will exit the Paris climate agreement.
35% : "I think it's misleading to say that there has been a tsunami of populism; not everyone who voted for Trump is onboard with a far-right agenda," said Jan-Werner Müller, a political scientist at Princeton University.
25% : "People said in 2016 when Trump won that it might not quite be as apocalyptic as anticipated," said Müller.
15% : In Europe, rightwing parties that declared climate action to be costly and unnecessary fared well in the EU elections, while in the US, Trump defeated Kamala Harris after making explicit promises to gut environmental regulations and ditch "green new scam" climate policies.

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