“If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s,” Liu was quoted as saying by Bloomberg. The president-elect has pledged to pull out of the Paris climate deal and scrap Obama’s Clean Power Plan to slash US carbon emissions. “A Trump presidency might be game over for the climate,” Michael Mann, a prominent climate researcher, told the Guardian last week. Such concerns have dominated the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, the first such meeting since the historic 2015 talks in Paris. He added: “No one, no one should doubt the overwhelming majority of the citizens of the US who know climate change is happening and who are determined to keep our commitments in Paris.”But with the American commitment to fighting climate change suddenly in doubt, activists have urged Beijing to continue leading the international effort.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2016 02:26 UTC