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hatrack

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Thu May 10, 2018, 08:22 AM May 2018

Leaving Paris Agreement Requires US Follow-Up; Shitstain, Of Course, Has Provided Nothing

BONN, Germany, May 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to outline what changes he wants in a 2015 global climate agreement as the price for dropping his plan to quit, the United Nations' climate chief said on Wednesday.

Patricia Espinosa said she had asked Washington for its demands after Trump announced last June that he planned to quit the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to end the fossil fuel era this century with a shift to cleaner energies.

"There has not been a follow-up" from Washington, she told Reuters during negotiations in Bonn among almost 200 nations on a "rule book" for the 2015 agreement.

Espinosa, a former Mexican foreign minister who leads the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said she had stressed that the pact was flexible, allowing all countries to set their own targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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http://news.trust.org/item/20180509154353-w3u79/

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