News Summary

• The Trump Administration eliminated the State Department’s climate-negotiation office in April.
• Three dozen climate negotiators and scientists were at Lincoln Center to see a performance of “Kyoto,’ about the landmark 1997 treaty on greenhouse-gas emissions.
• The play stars Stephen Kunken as an oil lobbyist named Don Pearlman, who addresses the audience at the outset.
• “I think we can all agree on one thing,” he says, “the times you live in are fucking awful”