The Trump administration has made or initiated major policy changes that impact nonprofits and their missions in its first week.

The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner.

In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change, plastic pollution, loss of global species and a growing number of deserts have either outright failed or come out with limited outcomes that didn’t address the scale of the problems.

It’s the killer detail in international climate talks: Consensus.

Once the world had hope that when nations got together they could stop climate change.