Smog covers midtown Manhattan in New York on Tuesday, July 10, 2007. AP Photo/Adam Rountree. All rights reserved.
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States may turn out to be a disaster for the climate and especially for climate change negotiations if he sticks to the threats he made during his election campaign. At the same time, it may provide the developing world, especially China, an opportunity to take over the leadership of the battle against climate change.
On his very first day in office, Trump would rescind Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and “end the war on coal”, he promised on the campaign trail.
