With Germany's environment minister, Barbara Hendricks, also departing early and France's Nicolas Hulot not arriving until Monday because of legislative elections, there appeared little prospect of substantial dialogue on an issue which has caused significant tensions between Donald Trump's administration and key United States allies.
The president's decision to pull the United States out of the world's first comprehensive agreement on tackling climate change and seek renegotiated terms "fair" to America drew widespread global condemnation earlier this month.
"Positions over the Paris accord are far apart. and will remain that way", Italian Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said on the sidelines of the meeting.
That came after Trump met the leaders of other G7 countries for their own summit in Italy.
In the point 7 of the 15-page final communique, they "reaffirm strong commitment to the swift and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement, which remains the global instrument for effectively and urgently tackling climate change, and adapting to its effects".
Instead, the USA said it would work with global partners in ways "consistent with our domestic priorities, preserving both a strong economy and a healthy environment".
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Trump announced in June that the United States would not be bound by Paris targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, saying they were unfairly damaging to the American economy and overly generous to India and China.
The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, had attended the first few hours of the summit on Sunday, but left to attend a cabinet meeting in Washington. He said the other G-7 countries hoped to continue "constructive dialogue" with the US, but insisted on the Paris parameters.
"Scott Pruitt's many distortions and falsehoods about the Paris agreement, the reality of the climate threat, and the economic and employment benefits of the clean energy revolution have been sharply rejected by the other G7 environment ministers".
"Respective of the importance to engage with longstanding allies and key global partners, we approached the climate discussions head on from a position of strength and clarity", he said in a statement. And according to Patricia Espinosa, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Pruitt told delegates in the opening session today that the United States wanted to continue making efforts in combating climate change.
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The G-7 comprises Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, the world's seven biggest economies when the club was formed. "International agreements aside, we remain committed to creating a better environment". "Good, we're for that", Brown said in a speech closing out his trip at Tsinghua University in Beijing on 8 June.
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