“G20 draft text fuses US climate isolation with deal on innovation”

A draft of conclusions to the G20 summit in Hamburg contains a compromise on climate protection between the US and other member states, news agency Reuters reports. The document, dated 3 July, acknowledged Washington’s “isolation in opposing the Paris climate accord” but also provided for “collaboration on reducing emissions through innovation", the article says. The G20 is split “19-1” over the Paris Climate Agreement, which the US wants to have renegotiated while the other member states call it “irreversible", according to Reuters. The German government, which presides over this year’s summit, “neither confirmed nor denied the draft agreement", Reuters reports.

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See the CLEW interview with G20 Research Group founder John J. Kirton and the article G20 climate, energy plan goes to the wire at Hamburg summit for background.