US election leaves 'wide-open vacuum' for global climate leadership, activist says The COP29 climate talks open Monday in Azerbaijan, under the long shadow cast by the re-election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to row back on the United States' carbon-cutting commitments. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports. Angela Diffley speaks to Henna Hundal, National Coordinator of Climate Live USA. She says that the US election leaves a wide-open vacuum for global climate leadership and hopes that the other historical big emitters will step up to fill that gap.