Despite uncertainties about whether the United States will remain committed to the Paris climate accord under President Trump, diplomats convened talks in Bonn, Germany, on May 8 about implementing the details of the global deal to combat global warming.
Trump made cancelling the agreement a key part of his rhetoric during the campaign. Comey told lawmakers that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, had sent "hundreds and thousands" of emails to her husband's laptop, including some with classified information. The openness appears to be by design, as Trump and his team tout an openness to different viewpoints and a degree of ideological flexibility.
The two leaders agreed to meet "as soon as possible".
The Trump administration has yet to decide whether it intends to withdraw from the worldwide roadmap for addressing climate change. Trump will "come to a decision on what's in the best interest of the United States using the expertise that surrounds him", he said.
"We must stay in Paris, we must pass on a healthy economy and a healthy environment to our children", Lubber said.
Rightly or not, the debate has also been regarded as a proxy battle between rival factions within the West Wing, who are split between a nationalist worldview and a more globalist outlook.
That session, along with other West Wing meetings to discuss the issue, have become heated as Trump's advisers air their differences over the Paris agreement.
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At the same time, the Bank forecast a tough year ahead for families amid a sharp jump in the cost of living and lower wage growth. At the May meeting, Kristin Forbes was the only member to vote in favour of rise in interest rates.
Regardless of whether or not the USA leaves the Paris agreement, American climate scientists who doubt their work will find traction on this side of the Atlantic have an ally on the continent.
But senior White House adviser Steve Bannon and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt have called to withdraw, as Trump had promised during the presidential campaign.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, formerly chief of oil giant ExxonMobil, supports staying in the accord, but Scott Pruitt, administrator of the country's Environmental Protection Agency, says it "is a bad deal for America" that will cost some USA workers their jobs.
President Trump will now wait until after the Group of Seven meeting in late May before making a decision about whether to keep the United States in the Paris climate agreement, his press secretary, Sean Spicer, said Tuesday.
UN climate negotiators in Bonn were left frustrated Tuesday as the White House postponed a meeting to determine whether the USA will stay in the 196-nation Paris Agreement to curb planet-harming fossil fuel.
Over the weekend, the EPA administrator released a letter stating that under federal ethics standards he is obligated to recuse himself from legal cases he was involved with in his old job.
Tiffany is one of a number of companies, including Apple, Gap, and Facebook, that signed a letter in support of the Paris agreement than ran as a full-page ad in The New York Times on Monday.
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