Up in smoke?: What will happen if America’s president-elect follows through on pledges to tear up environmental laws

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As America’s president-elect toys with abandoning climate commitments, the rest of the world is working out how to keep on course




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Up in smoke?




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Climate policy








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Climate change in the era of Trump




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Up in smoke?





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MARRAKESH AND WASHINGTON, DC




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“LIKE ice water through the veins.” That is how a UN official, in Marrakesh for the UN climate summit that ended on November 18th, described the effect of Donald Trump’s electoral victory. Her trepidation was widely shared at the two-week event—and justified. In a tweet in 2012 Mr Trump called anthropogenic warming a “hoax”. On the campaign trail he said he would abolish America’s Environmental ...