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Climate activists protested at
Trump's election outside climate talks in Morocco
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At UN climate talks in Morocco,
countries say they are prepared to move ahead without the US.
President-elect Trump has said that
he will "cancel" the Paris Climate Agreement within 100 days of
taking office.
Negotiators in Marrakech say that such
a move would seriously damage the credibility of the US.
But fossil fuel supporters say Mr
Trump's plans prioritise the needs of American families.
Cancelling
the deal
The election of a candidate viewed with
horror by many environmental campaigners, has cast a significant shadow over COP22 - the annual meeting of climate delegates
from almost 200 countries.
They have come to Marrakech to work
on the nuts and bolts of the Paris Climate
Agreement.
However the election of Mr Trump now
poses something of a threat to the deal signed less than a year ago in the
French capital.
The treaty commits governments to
take action to keep global temperatures from rising by 2C above pre-industrial
levels and to do their best to keep that rise to less than 1.5 degrees.
But Mr Trump has promised that
within 100 days of taking office he would "cancel" the agreement and
"stop all payments of US tax dollars to UN global warming
programmes".
Aware of Mr Trump's intentions,
countries speedily ratified the Paris deal and it became a binding part of
international law on 4 November.
If the new president wants to take
the US out of the agreement, the process will require four years before he is
free of it.
But
while that might frustrate Mr Trump, he has also promised within his first 100
days, to rescind the executive actions that President Obama has taken to limit
US emissions of carbon.
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