HAMBURGO, Germany (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 19 members of the Group of 20, reaffirmed the Paris weather agreement as “irreversible. “
Merkel said Saturday that the summit’s final statement “took into account” America’s position to reject the weather deal.
That leaves the United States after President Donald Trump announced his goal of withdrawing the United States from the agreement, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to scientists guilty of global warming.
Merkel America’s “regrettable” position.
Officials came to a joint statement, adding Trump, about the contentious factor at the summit, trade.
The statement maintains the G20’s long-standing rejection of shieldionism, but also stated that the industry will have to be mutually favorable and that countries can use “legitimate” industrial defenses to protect staff and industries from abuse through their trading partners.
At 2pm local time, President Vladimir Putin said Russia would respect his obligations under the Paris weather deal.
Speaking at an assembly with French President Emmanuel Macron outside the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Putin said that “we are honoring the Paris agreement. “He added that Russia had taken decisions similar to the implementation of the agreement and intended to bring them into force.
Macron Putin’s “very important” commitment.
Russia, the world’s fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, among the 195 countries that signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, but its ratification is delayed for at least two years.
Russia’s carbon reduction targets are very modest and it has also insisted that it obtain maximum credits for adsorbed carbon from the environment through the vast Siberian forests.
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