Trump action on climate change unstoppable: UN

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said action on climate change has become unstoppable and he expressed hopes that US President-elect Donald Trump will 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 agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, Ban said yesterday that US companies, States, and cities were all pushing to limit global warming. Trump has called



human-induced climate change a hoax and pledged to cancel the Paris deal.French President Francois Hollande said inaction would be disastrous for future generations, and it would be dangerous for peace. 

The accord, aiming to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions this century, was a breakthrough after more than two decades of negotiations, driven by increased scientific certainty that man-made emissions drive heat waves, floods, and rising sea levels.