David G. Victor

[On U.S. intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate] Even in places like Europe, you have industry groups worried about competitiveness. [U.S. withdrawal] makes the politics in other countries that much harder.

[On finance and the Paris Agreement on climate change] Developing countries were counting on that aid as a condition of participating.The concern is that they’d become less amenable to working together in the future and the whole machinery gets gummed up.

I think there is going to be a lot of talk about what the rest of the world does with the United States’ not playing leadership roles, especially on climate.

[On Davos and climate change] I think there is going to be a lot of talk about what the rest of the world does with the United States’ not playing leadership roles, especially on climate.