World faces uphill climate fight as US efforts fall short 0 SHARES Share it! “We all have the opportunity and the obligation to do our part to combat climate change,” he told AFP after signing the bill into law. But “glass-half-full” optics cannot obscure the fact that global warming continues to outpace efforts to tame it, in the US and across the globe. A monster hurricane threatening to unleash “catastrophic” flooding and storm surges on the US East Coast — bearing the telltale fingerprint of climate change — underscores that reality. Taken together, these jurisdictions represent about half of the US economy, the equivalent of the third-largest country in the world, according to the report.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 13, 2018 00:33 UTC