22-12-2016 01:25 via uk.news.yahoo.com

2016 - A year of transition from talk to action on climate change

By Megan Rowling BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When it comes to climate change and the battle to keep it in check, 2016 was a year of extremes. The euphoria of the super-fast entry into force of the Paris Agreement to curb global warming crashed days later with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, fuelling fears he may pull the world's second-largest emitting nation out of the pact. ...
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