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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says climate change scepticism is over, after the U.S. joined China to ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
While President Donald Trump sends his lawyers hither-and-yon to try to overturn the election, President-elect Joe Biden has been busy filling Cabinet slots. HuffPost reports Biden named John Kerry on Monday as his special envoy on climate. He's tasked the former secretary of state with steering a 180-degree turn in US diplomacy on the issue. Kerry will also be advising the incoming Biden administration on the security challenges a warming planet poses. America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. Kerry will represent the US at a moment that scholars increasingly see as a period of American imperial decline amid unprecedented planetary changes.
Republican electoral victories Tuesday cast doubt over whether the US would enact any significant measures to curb planet-heating emissions in the near-term. States were still tallying results on Wednesday as the Trump administration officially withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. According to HuffPost, that makes the US the only country to exit the nonbinding global pact to cut climate-changing carbon emissions. In Montana and Texas, climate-change-denying candidates cruised to victory. While many Senate and House races remain undecided, two sunny spots for climate advocates and environmentalists were in Arizona and in Colorado. Democrat Mark Kelly handily beat Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally. Kelly made tackling climate change a key part of his platform. And in Colorado, former governor and 2020 presidential contender John Hickenlooper ousted Republican Sen. Cory Gardner. Claiming to be a 'national leader' on climate, Gardner consistently peddles the conspiracy theory that environmentalists are plotting to control the economy.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker vows there can be "no backsliding" on the Paris climate agreement following the US pullout from the landmark deal. SOUNDBITE
India, the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is set to formally joins the Paris agreement on climate change. Paul Chapman reports.
The United States joins China to formally ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hanzhou. Diane Hodges reports.
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