Luxembourg

UN Climate-Change Conference overshadowed by Trump election

As the climate-change conference in Marrakech is drawing to an end, the last week was influenced by the outcome of the US elections. Read on for a COP22 summary and Luxembourg's role within it.

17.11.2016

(sth/AFP) - As the climate-change conference COP22 in Marrakech is drawing to an end, the last week was influenced by the outcome of the US elections. President-elect Trump is an outspoken opponent to action on climate-change, having threatened during his campaign to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.

Trump has called climate change a "hoax" perpetrated by China and has promised to "cancel" the hard-fought Paris Agreement concluded last year to limit dangerous global warming.