"What's at Stake for the Climate in the 2016 Election? Everything"

"The choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump holds U.S. climate policy, and the Paris agreement, in the balance."

"Following the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the gulf between the candidates has never seemed deeper, perhaps most alarmingly so on climate change.

The election shapes up as the most significant possible choice when it comes to climate policy. Clinton, though not committed to a swift transition away from fossil fuels, vows to build on the climate policies of the Obama administration and live up to U.S. commitments to the Paris accord. Trump, in contrast, pledges to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency and "cancel" the Paris agreement.

More fundamentally, the election is a choice between one candidate who accepts the global scientific and political consensus on the causes and cures for climate change, and one who rejects both."

Marianne Lavelle reports for InsideClimate News  October 3, 2016.

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