Donald Trump to make final decision on Paris climate deal next week
But here, as during most of the public portions of his foreign trip, Trump basked in the applause and reveled in the pageantry.
Scientists said it would worsen an already bad problem and make it far more hard to prevent crossing a unsafe global temperature threshold.
In group photos, Trump towered above most leaders and tilted his chin upward in pride as he walked among his counterparts. Officials said the meeting’s final declaration would reflect a stalemate between the United States and the six other participating countries, who are all strongly committed to Paris.
President Donald Trump says he’ll make a final decision next week on whether the US will stay in the Paris climate agreement. Trump has been unable to fully escape the Russian Federation controversy, but the pace of events, meetings and focus on foreign policy has distracted him in ways he won’t be in Washington. The G7 statement said that North Korea poses an increasing threat of a “grave nature” to global peace and security.
As Trump headed home, European officials were left with mixed feelings: relief that he had been patient enough to listen to their arguments and unsettled by a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure who is still finding his way on the big policy issues.
The Associated Press recently spoke to two dozen climate scientists and consulted a computer model created to predict the potential impact; it found that Trump’s move would make a bad situation markedly worse and make it harder to stop the world crossing a perilous global temperature threshold. White House adviser Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president’s son-in-law and daughter, have joined Tillerson in advocating staying.
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Trump and Trudeau also discussed “issues of global concern”. They saw the danger of the world’s most powerful nation not being present.
But in the end, officials said, the result was better than they had feared.
By contrast, two-thirds of Americans who identify as Democrats or who lean Democratic say such agreements have been positive, the poll found. Unsurprisingly, Putin’s greenhouse gas target “is one of the weakest put forward by any government, anywhere”, as Climate Action Tracker explains. “You’re the metal spine forged out of the fires of American strength”.
Arab nations meeting in the Saudi kingdom signed an agreement to crack down on the financing of terrorism, and USA and Saudi officials signed a new economic-investment and arms agreement.
He touted his talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and characterized his meeting with Pope Francis as a “great talk”.
Trump has said that he will soon announce his decision on whether America will leave the Paris Agreement or stick to the commitments it made under the Obama administration.
“I think we hit a home run no matter where we are”, Trump told the soldiers.
But as Trump headed home, many in Europe remained concerned about the future of US leadership.
Trump, who once said the concept of global warming “was created by and for the Chinese in order to make USA manufacturing noncompetitive”, repeatedly said during his election campaign that he would he would pull out of the Paris, but has sidestepped the issue since taking office.
The Mail noted that when Trump took the microphone he called his first trip overseas a “home run”.
The meeting’s final declaration reflected a stalemate between the United States and the six other participating countries, who are all strongly committed to the Paris accord.
Not so, said Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe: “There will be ripple effects from the United States’ choices across the world”.