China's special representative for climate change said Thursday that his country would continue with its policies to fight global warming no matter what course US president-elect Donald Trump decides to follow, according to dpa. "We believe that tackling global climate change - which is stipulated in the Paris Agreement, including the long-term goal - and the shared vision are issues that cannot be changed. And they are the global trend, which is irreversible," Xie Zhenhua said through a translator, responding to a question from dpa. Republican president-elect Donald Trump has claimed climate change was a hoax created by China and promised to "cancel" US involvement in the Paris Agreement, which was designed to keep temperature rises below 2 degrees. His transition team has not yet indicated what the president-elect's climate policy will be. Xie spoke as negotiators hammered out some of the specifics based on guidelines from the Paris Agreement, which entered force on November 4, at UN climate talks in Marrakesh, Morocco.
