Fragile climate talks begin in the wake of Trump’s trashing of Paris Climate Agreement

During a year of climate confrontation, the world has closed ranks around the Paris deal struck in 2015.

Momentum was “irreversible”, said a statement released by the German, French and Italian leaders in the hours after Donald Trump said he would leave or “renegotiate” the accord.

In the lead up to the annual U.N. talks in Bonn, which kick off on Monday, rhetoric from all nations has been uniform — confident, calm, defiant. Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel will attend the meeting in solidarity.

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