(CNN) The world's attention is rightly focused this week on the US election. The COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh, which opened on Monday, the day before the US presidential election, are a wonky but important followup to the UN climate talks held last year in Paris. There, the world pledged to do everything in its power to limit harmful warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That's a staggeringly bold and critical goal -- one that requires the world to ditch fossil fuels completely in coming decades. Climate activists realize the true urgency with which the world must act to avoid super-droughts, drowned coastal cities and mass extinction.

Source: CNN November 07, 2016 21:22 UTC