Host of UN climate talks asks Trump to show 'pragmatism'

A Moroccan official hosting United Nations climate talks has appealed to US President-elect Donald Trump to be pragmatic and to engage with the rest of the world in halting the global temperature rise.

Moroccan foreign minister Salaheddine Mezouar, the president of the two-week talks in Marrakesh, said the conference's "message to the new American president is simply to say, 'We count on your pragmatism and your spirit of commitment'."