Keep it in the ground: What president Trump means for climate change

Donald Trump's win could be catastrophic for the world's climate, as well as international diplomacy, as American leadership is transformed

This November is likely to have profound implications for climate change - but not in the way that was anticipated just a week ago. The Paris climate deal came into force on 4 November but Tuesday's election of Donald Trump as US president casts an ominous shadow over the agreement and the chances of avoiding dangerous global warming.

Trump is a highly erratic figure, so predicting his actions can be problematic. But we do know that he wants to withdraw the US from the Paris accord, which aims to keep the global temperature increase below a 2C threshold, that he believes climate change to be a "hoax" and that Barack Obama's warning that global warming is a threat on a par with terrorism was "one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard in politics."