Four researchers explain why they answered President Macron’s call to come to France
‘Wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility: make our planet great again.’ This was the response by the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, in response to Donald Trump’s confirmation that he was withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord in 2017. It was an obvious dig at his counterpart’s ‘Make America great again’ slogan – and a tantalising insight into what was to follow.