President - elect Donald Trump said Sunday that «nobody really knows» whether climate change is real and that he is «studying» whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago. (washingtonpost.com)
The U.S. and China will formally join the United Nations global warming agreement while President Barack Obama makes his final trip to Asia for the G20 meeting in September, sources tell the South China Morning Post. (m4gw.com)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of the few politicians left in the international arena who helped hammer out the original global warming agreement at Kyoto in 1997. (treehugger.com)