Coming as it did in the middle of COP 22 (7-18 November), the announcement of the US presidential election victory of Donald Trump, who is openly sceptical of climate change and determined to wage battle with the Paris Agreement that his predecessor has just ratified, has provoked considerable concern.
In contrast with the isolationist stance announced during the electoral campaign by the now president-elect of the country that is the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases,...