“Germany ‘massively weakened’ draft G20 climate plan to appease Trump”
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The United States’ delegation successfully pushed for significant changes to the G20 climate and energy action plan draft during working group negotiations, reports Arthur Neslen for Climate Home. The latest draft of the plan, which was initiated by the German government with the aim to be adopted by the world’s largest economies at the Hamburg summit next week, lacked the first version’s ambitious language on energy and defined natural gas as clean technology, writes Neslen.
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