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• Trump win threatens climate funds for poor, a key to Paris accord

  12-11-2016 22:07
  By Alister Doyle MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's policies are likely to make it harder for developing nations to obtain the growing finance they need to combat climate change, threatening one pillar of a 2015 international agreement to slow global warming. Many developing nations' promises to act under last year's Paris Agreement set pre-conditions including increasing funds to help them limit greenhouse gas emissions and make their economies more resilient to heat
  
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• Trump looking at fast ways to quit global climate deal - source

  12-11-2016 19:35
  By Valerie Volcovici and Alister Doyle WASHINGTON/MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - Donald Trump is seeking quick ways of withdrawing from a global agreement to limit climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying widening international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Since the U.S. President-elect was chosen, governments ranging from China to small island states have reaffirmed support for the 2015 Paris Agreement at 200-nation climate talks running until Nov.
  
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• Trump's influence on the future of clean energy is less clear than you think

  12-11-2016 14:00
  
  The president-elect is a political novice whose energy plan doesn’t account for the economic reality of coal and renewable energyAs the world struggles to absorb the implications of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the US general election, no one is facing the future with more trepidation than those working on clean energy, clean transportation, climate and the environment. Hillary Clinton had promised to build on Obama’s substantial progress in this area; now they worry th
  
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• 'The Pantanal is national heritage': protecting the world's largest wetlands

  12-11-2016 09:00
  
  Spanning Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia and home to 4,700 species, the Pantanal wetlands are under threat from deforestation and agriculture. But local people are taking on the challenge to protect this unique regionLeer este artículo en españolLeia este artigo em portuguêsInside a small aircraft, decorated with a polka-dot jaguar design, Ângelo Rabelo checks data on a small laptop computer. “We’re approaching a river spring!” he shouts over the plane&rs
  
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• The redwings are too busy eating to sing

  12-11-2016 06:30
  
  Airedale, West Yorkshire Far from being robust birds, these visitors from Scandinavia can suffer terribly when the temperature dropsThe little grebes have changed into their smart off-season outfits – smoky-brown, with a dark cap worn low on the brow – and moved upriver, westward, to winter with us. The quickening of the current has brought a dipper down from the river’s higher reaches. In a hawthorn that overhangs the water, redwings gorge on the dull red fruit.These aren&rsqu
  
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• ‘There’s no plan B’: climate change scientists fear consequence of Trump victory

  12-11-2016 01:04
  
  Activists and scientists at UN climate talks in Marrakech now fear a change in US policyAs news of Donald Trump’s victory reached Marrakech on Wednesday, the many thousands of diplomats, activists, youth and business groups gathered in the city for the UN’s annual climate conference were left in shock and disbelief that the US could elect a climate-change denier as president.Some of the younger activists were in tears. “My heart is absolutely broken at the election of Trump,&rd
  
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