World is losing the battle against climate change, Macron says


  • World
  • Tuesday, 12 Dec 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech before a dinner hosted by Special envoy to the United Nations for climate change Michael Bloomberg (not pictured) at the Grand Palais, on the eve of the One Planet Summit held in Paris, France, December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Ian Langsdon/Pool

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a bleak assessment on the global fight against climate change to dozens of world leaders and company executives on Tuesday, telling them: "We are losing the battle".

"We're not moving quickly enough. We all need to act," Macron said, seeking to breathe new life into a collective effort that was weakened this summer when President Donald Trump said he was pulling the United States out of an international accord brokered in the French capital two years ago.

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