Trump sends ‘much smaller’ team to UN climate change summit

A “much smaller” US delegation is set to attend a United Nations climate change summit in Bonn, Germany as Donald Trump considers withdrawing from the historic Paris Agreement, the White House has said.

The agreement, signed by nearly 200 countries in December 2015, looks to cap the increase in world temperatures to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius and as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible as determined by a panel of scientists and several years of political, financial, and legal negotiations.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not appointed many deputies in the State Department, especially those that would be in charge of the US obligations under the Paris Agreement.

 

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