美国国会代表团将赴土耳其出席年度联合国气候峰会，一名民主党议员周三表示，在民主党赢得中期选举压倒性胜利后，该代表团将前往安塔利亚参加11月9日至20日举行的COP31。美国因特朗普总统重返白宫后再次退出《巴黎协定》，已不再参与谈判。但伊利诺伊州众议员塞恩·卡斯坦表示，由可持续能源与环境联盟（SEEC）研究所牵头、19人组成的代表团仍将发挥“重要的外交功能”。
An American congressional delegation will travel to Turkey for the annual UN climate summit, a Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday, a day after his party's landslide midterm victory. The United States is not taking part in the negotiations after President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the Paris agreement for a second time upon returning to office. But Representative Sean Casten of Illinois said the 19-member delegation would nevertheless play an "important diplomatic function" at COP31 which runs from November 9 to 20 in Antalya.
卡斯坦在新闻发布会上表示：“我们当然不会在那次投票中成为多数派，但我们将受到理解刚刚发生之事的对待。”他说，鉴于美国在批准1997年《京都议定书》方面失败，以及特朗普执政期间两次退出《巴黎协定》，不应过于天真。但他认为，向全世界传达两点非常重要：第一，美国已经发声；第二，我们面临的许多挑战是相同的——包括气候难民、气候变化引发的金融波动，以及脱碳经济的需求，尤其是考虑到伊朗战争的影响。该代表团由可持续能源与环境联盟（SEEC）研究所牵头，这是一个无党派的智库组织。
"We will not, of course, be in the majority at that point, but we will be received with the understanding of what just happened," Casten told a press call. He said it was important not to be naive, given the United States' failure to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and its two exits from the Paris agreement under Trump. Trump shares thoughts on potential impeachment after midterm losses: 'It would destroy Democrats'"But I think also there's a real value in us being able to convey to the world, number one, that America has spoken, and number two, that so many of the challenges we face are the same," he said, citing climate refugees, financial volatility caused by climate change, and the need to decarbonize economies, especially given the Iran war. The delegation is being led by the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
该团体表示，成员将与政策制定者、民间社会团体和商界领袖会面，以“探索美国在气候、能源和经济政策方面重新参与的机会”。美国州和地方领导人也将在“美国全力以赴”联盟的框架下前往土耳其。
It said members would meet policymakers, civil society groups and business leaders to "explore opportunities for renewed US engagement on climate, energy, and economic policy."US state and local leaders are also set to travel to Turkey under the "America is All In" coalition.
特朗普为伊朗战争辩护，此前万斯将其归咎为共和党在中期选举中失利的原因：“我们不得不这么做”在国内，特朗普已威胁动用否决权，这引发了关于民主党即便控制众参两院，在气候问题上能取得多大成果的疑问。
Trump defends Iran war after JD Vance blames it for Republicans' midterm losses: 'We had to do it'Domestically, Trump has threatened to use his veto power, raising questions about how much Democrats can achieve on the climate front even with control of both the House and Senate.
但卡斯滕表示，特朗普的关税导致太阳能电池板和电动汽车价格上涨，而伊朗战争推高了汽油价格，这两者是“目前通胀的两大主要驱动因素”。
But Casten said Trump's tariffs, which make solar panels and electric vehicles more expensive, and the Iran war, which is spiking gasoline prices, are "the two biggest drivers of inflation right now."
加上共和党历史上曾支持某些环保政策，包括排放交易和保护臭氧层，这让他“谨慎乐观地认为，议席差距将打开一些机会之窗”。
That, together with the Republican Party's history of backing some environmental policies, including emissions trading and protecting the ozone layer, made him “cautiously optimistic that the margins will open up some opportunities.”