Professor's Take on Biden Skipping COP28 Climate Summit

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will miss the COP28 climate summit. Even though the two recently met on climate change, many are not happy Biden won’t be in attendance with the nearly 200 other countries who will be there.

Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, shared his thoughts below. If you’d like to schedule an interview with Professor Huber, please contact Vanessa Marquette, media relations specialist, at vrmarque@syr.edu.

He writes: “President Biden promised a ‘whole of government’ approach to the climate crisis upon taking office. But his absence at the COP 28 summit signals a dangerous lack of interest in the unfolding climate crisis. Given the United States is the world’s largest historic emitter this should be an international scandal.”