STATE DEPARTMENT NIXES CLIMATE OFFICE, REVAMPS ENERGY BUREAU

The Trump administration has terminated federal employees in charge of U.S. global climate policy and climate aid as part of its reorganization of the country's diplomatic focus.

The career employees in the Office of Global Change, which came under the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, played a lead role in U.S. negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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