COP23: Anti-Trump US delegates back Paris Agreement
American delegates, representing some 50% of the US economy, went to the UN Climate Conference in Germany to voice their support for urgent climate change and to strongly condemn President Donald Trump’s environmental policy.
12 Nov 2017
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