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Photo: BMUKN/Sascha Hilgers. Clean Energy Wire: From this week, Germany will be hosting the Bonn Climate Change Conference, which is to prepare for the COP30 negotiations in Brazil in November. The tense geopolitical situation and difficult times for multilateralism are also having an impact on climate policy: Priorities are shifting, often towards security policy and defence policy. The US is currently withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

The eyes of the world will be on the U.S. on 5 November this year, when Americans head to the ballot boxes to vote for a new president – or re-elect a former one. For Europe in particular, the U.S. elections will have enormous consequences given Washington's role in transatlantic trade relations, energy supply, security policy and in global climate diplomacy.