2016 Brought More Action on Climate Change

When it comes to climate change and the battle to keep it in check, 2016 was a year of extremes. The euphoria of the super-fast entry into force of the Paris Agreement to curb global warming crashed days later with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, fueling fears he may pull the world's second-largest-emitting nation out of the pact. But the explosion of efforts to drive climate action forward — at local, national and international levels — nurtured hopes that the...

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