Former Vice President Al Gore met Donald Trump at Trump Tower in December 2016 in the hope of persuading the then president-elect to honour the Paris deal on climate change. Although his pleading was unsuccessful, action already underway by business and individual US states may mean the country hits its targets anyway. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones (SIPA USA/PA Images)




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Tim Montgomerie was most recently a columnist and comment editor for The Times of London. Before that journalistic turn he was steeped in centre right politics, founding the Conservative Christian Fellowship, then the Centre for Social Justice and, just over ten years ago, ConservativeHome.com.

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