Delegates said the talks were stalled mainly on finance, reviving a divide between rich and developing nations at the talks. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the hard-fought Paris Agreement cast a long shadow over the talks. The United States, which under Trump has also slashed funding for climate bodies and projects, took a tough stance in the finance discussions, delegates said, angering many negotiating parties. - Paradox -Anything over 2 C, experts say, would doom the world to calamitous climate change, with ever more extreme superstorms, droughts, floods, and land-gobbling sea level rise. The United States is the world's biggest historical greenhouse gas polluter, and second only to China for current-day emissions.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 17, 2017 21:45 UTC