Businesses start push to convince Trump not to leave lesser-known Kigali climate deal

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Business groups are using the weeklong congressional recess to begin a lobbying push to urge the Trump administration not to withdraw from the important, but lesser-known, Kigali climate change agreement, playing up its economic benefits in a major report.

The push is being led by groups representing air-conditioning and home-heating giants Honeywell and Carrier, which want President Trump and Congress to support the Kigali Amendment to the three-decade-old Montreal Protocol.

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