France hosting climate summit, Trump not invited
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French President Emmanuel Macron waits for guests of the One Planet Summit, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France,
French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a United Nations (UN) climate summit in Paris on Tuesday to discuss financing issues for a landmark climate deal clinched two years ago.
Some 3,100 security personnel are patrolling around the capital for the gathering, and extra patrol boats will be sailing along the river.
The United Nations (UN)’s chief, Antonio Guterres, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto, UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Spain’s Premier Mariano Rajoy, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker were scheduled to be among the attendees.
The United States, which under its new president has initiated a withdrawal from the climate deal, will be represented by an embassy official as President Donald Trump has not been invited.
Trump announced his decision to withdraw the US from the historic 2015 Paris climate accord on limiting carbon emissions in June.
The deal is aimed at capping global warming at “well under” two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. A cash crisis will top the agenda at the summit, where world leaders will discuss financing issues. Analysts have warned that without trillions of dollars of investment in clean energy, the deal’s goal will remain a pipe dream.
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