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Global action on climate change is unstoppable, despite Mr Trump – says Ban Ki-moon

Donald Trump’s stance on climate change will not halt ‘unstoppable’ global action, Ban Ki-moon says, ABC News,  UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says action on climate change has become “unstoppable”, as he expressed hopes US President-elect Donald Trump would drop plans to quit a global accord aimed at weaning the world off fossil fuels.

At a meeting of almost 200 nations in Morocco to work out ways to implement the 2015 Paris agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, Mr Ban said US companies, states and cities were all pushing to limit global warming.

“What was once unthinkable has become unstoppable,” he told a news conference of the Paris Agreement, agreed by governments last year, ratified in record time and formally adopted by more than 100 nations including the United States……Mr Ban, who will step down at the end of the year after a decade in charge of the United Nations, has made action on climate change a core issue of his time in office. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-15/trump-wont-stop-climate-change-action-un-ban-ki-moon-hopes/8028300

November 16, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, climate change