On the heels of President Donald Trump’s U.N. General Assembly speech on Tuesday, in which he called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” global business leaders are making it clear that the world is still moving towards renewable energy, with or without the United States.br br “If there's one hoax, there's one con, it's that we in the global south are not acting on climate change because the United States told us to,” said Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water. “We're acting on climate change because it makes sense for us, because we are vulnerable, but we also have an agency to combat this crisis.