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12 Jun 2017

鈥淯S to join climate communiqu茅 showing splits, Germany says鈥�

Bloomberg

The US will join the G7 in the communiqu茅 of environment ministers meeting in Bologna, but it will acknowledge points of disagreement, a German official told reporters attending the meeting, according to a Bloomberg article by Chiara Albanese and Brian Parkin. German environment minister Barbara Hendricks said that G7 states 鈥渋ncluding the US鈥� agreed on reducing CO鈧� emissions, but she also said that Scott Pruitt, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, had said there were differences on climate protection. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 see how the U.S. will handle this when on the one hand it says yes, it will indeed reduce emissions, yet on the other hand it won鈥檛 apply the instruments that have been created for this purpose,鈥� Hendricks said. The communiqu茅 is expected on Monday.

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For background, read the 91tv articles German reactions to US decision to withdraw from Paris Agreement and Germany, China urge US to remain in climate agreement.

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