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The climate crisis has become a key issue not just for American voters in this US election -- but people across the world.

What the next president does or doesn't do over the next four years will have a profound impact on the whether the world is able to avert the worst effects of climate change, scientists, policy makers and activists say.

They say the world needs a US president who cares about climate change, for two main reasons. First, many nations take their cue from US policy, particularly on issues such as the climate crisis, meaning Washington has a unique opportunity to influence. Second, the US is the world's second-biggest polluter after China, meaning it has a moral obligation to act.

Read the full article on the CNN website, featuring commentary by Prof Frank Jotzo