Miami grapples with rising seas and stifling heat. But climate change won't be on the G-7 agenda at
Source: Washington Post
Miami grapples with rising seas and stifling heat. But climate change won’t be on the G-7 agenda at Trump’s Doral resort
Topic will be ignored despite city’s struggles with climate impacts at start of hurricane season
By Andrew Freedman, Josh Dawsey and Juliet EilperinOctober 17 at 4:08 PM
Holding the Group of Seven meeting in June in Miami — where streets flood on sunny days from rising seas, and stifling heat and humidity are worsening — seems to present an opportune time to discuss climate change. However, in announcing the choice of President Trump’s Miami-area Doral resort as the summit site, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters Thursday that climate change isn’t a priority for the meeting.
“Climate change will not be on the agenda,” Mulvaney said.
Trump’s decision not to raise the topic is not surprising, considering his intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, a treaty the rest of the G-7 leaders are committed to. It’s also in keeping with his treatment of climate change at other G-7 meetings and during international forums throughout his presidency. In August, for example, he skipped the climate session at the G-7 meeting in France, and he spent 14 minutes at a day-long U.N. climate summit in September, though that was 14 minutes more than was scheduled.
Trump and his advisers have been annoyed at previous G-7 sessions when climate change has been on the agenda, and the president has said he does not want to attend such sessions, according to advisers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s private comments. White House officials described being frustrated that a “niche” issue played such a large role within the G-7. The president has sought to put more emphasis on economic and trade issues, in particular.
The question of how to address climate in international meetings — including those of the Group of 20 and Arctic Council, in addition to the G-7 — has become a thorny issue for other leaders. Earlier this year, according to a senior diplomat for a foreign country who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal private discussions, European leaders decided not to push for a joint communique on climate during these gatherings to avoid a public split with the United States.
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