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Efforts to build a new global deal to tackle climate change were for many years criticized for moving at glacial pace. But this week climate negotiators meeting in Morocco find themselves facing an entirely new problem: a deal that, astonishingly, has come into effect more than three years ahead of schedule.
But many nations also have an anxious eye on this week’s U.S. elections, where presidential candidate Trump has promised to pull his country out of the climate agreement if elected, analysts said…
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Paris Climate Change Deal Becomes International Law, AP / ABC News (11-04-2016)
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday November 4, 2016 — a landmark deal about tackling global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming hotter even faster than scientists expected…
