Trump snubs Theresa May for demanding action on climate change ‘before it’s too late'

Mrs May attempted to “raise their ambition” on climate change but Trump refused to reverse his position on the 2016 Paris agreement, according to The Sunday Times. The US remained the only country to not recommit to the Paris accord at the G20 Summit in Japan even though Mrs May pushed for “strongest wording we can deliver”. Trump had reportedly been hoping for the language in the statement to be watered down.

However, Mrs May said it was significant that the statement was agreed at the Summit and 19 of the G20 members believed in the “irreversibility” of the Paris process.

Mrs May did not have a formal meeting with Trump but they did meet on the fringes of what was her final major global summit as Prime Minister.

She said at a press conference in Japan this morning: “In Osaka this week, we have worked hard to bridge differences between the G20 countries on some of the biggest challenges our nations face.

“That has not been easy but we have made progress. I continue to believe that we are stronger when we work together.”

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She also said tackling climate change was essential “before it’s too late”.

It comes as the President signalled an end to the US trade war with China.

The US President said he would keep current tariffs in place, but is standing back from taxing $350bn worth of goods from China, and in return China committed to “spending money with our farmers”.

In a press conference before he left the summit this evening, Trump said: “We had a great meeting.

“Many of you were at the event in China a year ago when I’d never seen anything like it. We talked about it last night when we had dinner.

“In Beijing the red carpet was rolled out for this country. We had a great meeting and we will be continuing to negotiate and I promise that for at least the time being we’re not going to be lifting tariffs on China.

“We won’t be adding an additional, I guess we have $350bn that could be taxed but we’re not going to do that.

“We’re going to work with China where we left off. China will be consulting with us and will be spending money with our farmers in the Mid West – the great patriots.

“China will be buying a tremendous amount of food and agricultural product. They will start that very soon.

“Our farmers will be a tremendous beneficiary. Fifteen years ago farms and farmers had a bad time and a lot of it was because NAFTA was a terrible deal.”

source: express.co.uk