Trump Win Throws Global Climate Action Into Disarray

Clean Technica: The surprise election of Republican Donald Trump has imperilled efforts at the United Nations to slow global warming, throwing two new climate treaties into turmoil at a critical moment.

Diplomats are gathering in Morocco to negotiate the rules of a new climate agreement near the end of what will be the hottest year on record. They were stunned by America’s election of a climate science denier, just a year after the Paris agreement was finalized.

“Everybody is a bit depressed,” one African negotiator told Climate Home.

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