‘We should expect that President-elect Trump will withdraw from the Paris Agreement’, writes Christian Downie in The Conversation (23.11.16):
‘Even if he changes his mind (which he has done on plenty of other issues), there are many in the Republican Party who will hold him to his word.
‘The climate isn’t waiting to see what a President Trump does, and neither should the world. Should China and Europe decide to lead, many nations will follow, and one day soon so too will the United States.’
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