Even though Trump vociferously ejects the Paris Agreement on climate change, he will be forced to embrace Green Economy. Technocrats at the UN are working feverishly to unite the entire planet against us. ? TN Editor

The 22nd United Nations climate summit began as a wonky, low-profile affair. Nearly 200 nations, finally agreeing to keep the world from burning up, began writing the rulebook by which the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement could be achieved, while seeking the trillions needed to move quickly away from fossil fuels to a green-energy economy.

Then things blew up. On the second day of the two-week COP22 conference, American voters elected Republican nominee Donald Trump as president, the guy who calls climate change "a hoax" perpetuated by the Chinese.

Trump didn't wait to put his hand on the Bible to begin undermining the global environment, along with the will of the international community: he vowed this week to withdraw the US from its carbon-reduction commitments in the Paris Agreement as quickly as possible. He also recommended an avowed climate denier, Myron Ebell, to head the EPA.

Suddenly, the Marrakesh meeting had a new, and urgent, storyline.

"While progress was made on a number of negotiating issues during this first week of the climate talks here, much of the conversation since has focused on the implications of a Trump presidency," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry, instrumental in negotiating the Paris Agreement, angrily underscored Meyer's point: "This is bigger than one person, one president. We have to figure out how we're going to stop this [Trump's plan]… No one has the right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology or without proper input."

Just before Kerry spoke, the US released its first long-term climate plan under the Paris Agreement. It would reduce national emissions by 80 percent by 2050, measured against 2005 levels.

President Barrack Obama's team — including Secretary of State Kerry — has provided unprecedented leadership in recent climate talks. Two years ago, the US persuaded China to pledge to pursue a vastly reduced coal-burning future for its energy needs. China, choking on the smog of its own rapid industrialization, had little choice. This groundbreaking partnership proved to be a game changer.

When the world's two leading greenhouse gas emitters found common ground at the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru in 2014, the rest of the world quickly fell in line. That joint leadership made the historic Paris Agreement possible last December — the first time ever that 195 nations agreed to reduce their carbon footprints to slow global warming; an agreement that went into force early in November 2016 and in record time.

China to take leadership role

Now it's likely — as during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration — that the US will go AWOL, abandoning its international climate change policy leadership role and its responsibilities to the international community and to the planet.

At a COP22 press conference, Jonathan Pershing, the lead US negotiator in Marrakesh, stressed that he knows nothing about Trump's transition team for climate policy; no one has been in touch.

"What I do know, however, is that [due to] the power of the movement and the enormous momentum created in Paris, and built throughout the year since; [the] parties are deeply invested in seeing this work bear real fruit. It is no longer a question of whether to accelerate the [Paris] Agreement's implementation, but rather a question of when and how."

On the same day, at another COP22 press conference, China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin dismissed Trump's assertion that China was behind a climate-change "hoax," presumably to steal American jobs, as Trump has alleged.