The unity which underpinned the Paris talks has fragmented, and US President Donald Trump intends to pull his country - one of the world's biggest emitters - out of the pact. AMBITION, AMBITION, AMBITIONSome countries and green groups criticised the outcome for failing to urge increased ambitions on emissions cuts sufficiently to curb rising temperatures. A statement by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who left the talks on Thursday, stressed the need for more work. "From now on, my five priorities will be: ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition and ambition," it said. The US administration’s only event in Katowice was seen as trying to rebrand coal as a potentially clean energy source.

Source: bd News24 December 15, 2018 22:30 UTC