While the eyes of virtually everyone in America were fixated on the election, a longtime Trump promise finally materialized: the US left the Paris Climate Agreement. American diplomats will now be onlookers in the climate negotiations that their predecessors helped establish in the first place, and POLITICO’s Zack Colman reports that getting respect even if the U.S. comes back to the table is going to be harder this time around. Anthony Adragna is an energy reporter for POLITICO and host of POLITICO Energy. Zack Colman is an energy reporter for POLITICO Carlos Prieto is a Politico podcast producer. Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.