President resists pressure from other G7 countries to support treatyMerkel says discussions on climate deal ‘difficult and unsatisfactory’Donald Trump has resisted pressure from Europe,Canada and Japan to declare his support for the UN’s landmark climate change treaty signed in Paris in 2015, marking a defiant cessation to his first international trip as US president.
The deadlock at the cessation of the G7 summit in Italy left other world leaders frustrated. The German chancellor Angela Merkel said the discussions “had been very difficult and not to say very unsatisfactory.” Related: Donald Trump's Europe tour leaves leaders strangely shaken Related: Worried world urges Trump not to pull out of Paris climate agreement Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com