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Trump ‘not invited’ to Paris climate summit

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French President Emmanuel Macron talks to US President Donald Trump during Bastille Day celebrations in Paris, France, in July 2017. Photo: EPA
Agence France-Presse

US President Donald Trump is not among about 100 heads of state and government invited to next month’s climate summit in Paris, a French presidential aide said on Tuesday.

“For now, President Donald Trump is not invited,” he said, while noting that representatives of the US government would attend.

Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the historic 2015 Paris Agreement on limiting carbon emissions in June.

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The pact calls for countries to try to keep Earth’s temperature “well under” two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Around 800 businesses and organisations will be attending the December 12 event on Ile Seguin, an island in the Seine River southwest of Paris.

The meeting will follow the 23rd UN climate conference that opened in Bonn, Germany, on Monday.

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