Action against climate change must go on - even without US

UNTIL the US presidential elections in November, it seemed that the groundswell for global action against climate change was finally gaining major traction.

Last year, nearly 200 countries signed the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to under two degrees Celsius. The recent United Nations climate change conference in Morocco saw governments set 2018 as their deadline to finalise details needed to fully implement the Paris Agreement. Now, environmentalists have suffered a blow with the accession o…