PARIS FAILURE MEANS IT'S FINALLY TIME TO CHANGE TACK: LOMBORG

Paris Treaty would have cost $1-2 trillion a year
Would only have cut 1% of carbon needed for 2°C target

Trump cuts show Paris treaty is a paper tiger: Bjorn Lomborg

President Trump’s executive order eliminating President Obama’s standards for power plants guts the main U.S. measure to reduce harmful carbon emissions, and in doing so reveals the emptiness of the Paris climate treaty.

Paris Agreement On Climate Change Comes Into Effect

The Paris agreement on climate change has officially taken effect on Friday, November 4, 2016.

Climate change: Buhari urges unity among global community to avert disaster

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday called for greater global cooperation against the devastating effects of climate change to avert disaster for the human race in the 21st century.

This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Mr Femi Adesina.

The statement quoted the President Buhari as speaking at the opening of the 2016 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The president reaffirmed Nigeria's readiness to work with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and rest of the world in a collective effort to mitigate the effects of climate change.