News Digest Item
15 Jun 2017

“Trudeau disputes German magazine report that he feared ‘provoking’ Trump on climate change”

Toronto Star

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau disputed a report by German weekly Der Spiegel which claimed he proposed to strike the references to the Paris Agreement from the upcoming G20 communiqué in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “No, I did not say that,” Trudeau told the Canadian House of Commons.

Read the article in English here.

For background, read the CLEW articles German reactions to US decision to withdraw from Paris Agreement and Germany, China urge US to remain in climate agreement.

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