COP22: Talks end with agreement to finalise Paris rulebook by 2018

UN negotiations in Marrakesh end with delivery of a two-year roadmap to put Paris Agreement into action, despite uncertainty over the future of US involvement

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After two weeks of negotiations overshadowed by the election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, the UN climate talks in Morocco reached a close in the early hours of Saturday morning with negotiators...

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