Donald Trump is likely to scale back America’s climate targets – will other countries follow suit? | Science, Climate & Tech News
After a year of ever more extreme weather and continually rising global temperatures, it’s no wonder this year’s UN climate summit has been called – once again – the “last-chance saloon”. Yet swaggering out through its swing doors goes president-elect Donald Trump. The timing of his election win, with its promise to withdraw the US from the global climate process, couldn’t be worse. Next year is forecast to exceed 1.5 degrees of warming for the first time – something the Paris Agreement is designed to prevent from becoming the norm. Despite that and nearly 30 years of talks, man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising. Yet just a handful of nations have committed to cut them enough to prevent close to three degrees of warming by the end of the century. Read more from Sky News:British supermodel dies aged 46UK village had just 12 minutes of sunshine this month – here’s why So does America’s sudden departure, at this most precarious of moments, spell disaster? Under previous administrations, the US was a major diplomatic …