The U.S. could have a role in meeting the Paris climate change agreement despite President Trump’s decision last month to leave the global agreement, according to a draft communique being circulated Friday among countries attending the Group of 20 talks in Hamburg, Germany.
A paragraph in the communique outlines a role for the U.S. in working “closely with other partners to help their access to and use of fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently,” according to Reuters.
Although some experts say they are skeptical that the language will survive in the final communique to be issued Saturday, there is no denying it is a nod to Washington’s policy positions under Trump.
The communique was being circulated as British Prime Minister Theresa May said she hopes President Trump can “find a way to come back” into the global warming pact.
“I was clear to President Trump how disappointed the U.K. was that the United States had decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement and also clear that I hope that they will be able to find a way to come back into the Paris Agreement,” May told the BBC. “I think that’s important for us globally.”
May joined leaders of the top 20 industrialized nations, called the G-20, at the summit in Hamburg, where the Paris climate change agreement is at the top of the matters to be discussed.
