Leaving COP21, Sustainability In City Policy And A Conversation With Public Interest Lawyer Prashant Bhushan

Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, southern Italy, Friday, May 26, 2017. Climate change promises to be the most problematic issue for this summit after Trump’s decision to review U.S. policies related to the Paris Agreement on fighting global warming.
Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina. Paolo Santalucia / AP Photo
Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, southern Italy, Friday, May 26, 2017. Climate change promises to be the most problematic issue for this summit after Trump’s decision to review U.S. policies related to the Paris Agreement on fighting global warming.
Oxfam activists wearing masks of US President Donald Trump, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina. Paolo Santalucia / AP Photo

Leaving COP21, Sustainability In City Policy And A Conversation With Public Interest Lawyer Prashant Bhushan

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President Donald Trump announced today that the U.S. will pull out of COP21. Ahead of that news, we talked about the ramifications of leaving the accord with Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Plus, conversations with public interest lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Chicago’s former chief sustainability officer, Karen Weigert.