‘Trump doesn’t represent us’: US activist groups to push for climate action at Cop30 in Brazil

US groups aim to represent country at UN climate summit even as Trump administration declines to send a delegation

Despite historic environmental rollbacks under a president who pulled the US from a key international climate treaty - and recently called global warming the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" - US civil society groups say they are gearing up to push for bold international climate action at a major UN conference next month.

This is a really important moment to illustrate that Trump does not represent the entirety, or even anywhere near a majority, of us," said Collin Rees, US program manager at the environmental non-profit Oil Change International, who will attend the annual UN climate conference, known as Cop30.