Global efforts to fight climate change stumbled but survived the last time Donald Trump was elected president and withdrew the United States from an international climate agreement.
Other countries, states, cities and businesses picked up some of the slack.
But numerous experts worry that a second Trump term will be more damaging, with the US withdrawing even further from climate efforts in a way that could cripple future presidents’ efforts, AP reports.
“There’s no hope of reaching a safe climate without substantive action from the United States, from China, from Europe,” said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson.
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