{"id":334926,"date":"2017-07-09T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=334926"},"modified":"2017-07-09T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:00:08","slug":"us-g20-split-over-climate-at-summit-of-world-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/us-g20-split-over-climate-at-summit-of-world-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"US, G20 split over climate at summit of world leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
Leaders from the world’s leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, keen to show off her skills as a mediator two months before a German election, achieved her primary goal at the meeting in Hamburg, convincing her fellow leaders to support a single communique with pledges on trade, finance, energy and Africa.<\/p>\n
But the divide between Trump, elected on a pledge to put “America First”, and the 19 other members of the club, including countries as diverse as Japan, Saudi Arabia and Argentina, was stark.<\/p>\n