News Digest Item
10 Jul 2017

“What the G20 summit did for climate protection”

Spiegel Online

The G20 summit’s G19 outcome on climate is “quite acceptable” as Donald Trump was unlikely to change his mind on pulling out of the Paris Agreement, writes Christoph Seidler for Spiegel Online. Little has therefore changed as the countries’ commitments were not enough to limit the most dramatic consequences of climate change, writes Seidler. “However, Hamburg has brought the certainty that humanity is not veering further off course than so far,” he concludes.

Read the article in German here

Find CLEW’s full coverage of the G20 Hamburg summit in this dossier.

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