CEOs, leaders urge Trump to stand by climate pact

November 17, 2016 00:42

Nations, businesses and Washington's top diplomat urged president-elect Donald Trump today not to withdraw the US from the climate-rescue Paris

Agreement and its commitments to preserve Earth for future generations.

US Secretary of State John Kerry underlined the perils that await the world if leaders drag their feet on cutting planet-warming greenhouse gases, while poor nations and small-island states highlighted their own vulnerability to the predicted climate catastrophe.

"At some point even the strongest skeptic has to acknowledge that something disturbing is happening," Kerry said at a UN climate conference in Marrakesh, just a week after Trump's election to the White House.

Before his election, the business tycoon called climate change a "hoax" perpetrated by China and vowed to "cancel" the hard-fought Paris Agreement concluded last year to limit dangerous global warming.

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