John Kerry: We will fight to keep US in the Paris climate deal
by Arthur Neslen in Marrakech and Fiona Harvey from on (#21V39)
Secretary of state says the outgoing Obama administration is determined to prevent Trump withdrawing the US from the landmark deal
John Kerry has signalled that the outgoing Obama administration is preparing a fight to ensure that Donald Trump does not withdraw the US from the landmark Paris agreement, to prevent catastrophic climate change.
"This is bigger than one person, one president," the US secretary of state said in Marrakech, before his last address to the UN climate summit being held there. "We have to figure out how we're going to stop this."
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