France and UK vow to make up for Trump's withdrawal of climate change funding

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European leaders have urged more global action to combat global warming after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 Paris agreement - with both France and Germany promising more funding to make up the shortfall.

France's President Emmanuel Macron said France aimed to close down all coal-fired power plants by 2021 as part of action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Mr Macron, who will host a summit in Paris on 12 December about climate finance, said France would make up for a shortfall in US funding for the climate science research by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

“They will not miss a single euro,” he told delegates from nearly 200 nations attending a meeting in Bonn, who applauded. US contributions to the IPCC budget have been about €2m ($2.36m) a year in recent years. The UK also announced that it would help the IPCC financially, with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announcing a doubling of funding.

For details, please go to the link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-climate-change-funding-france-uk-vow-make-up-money-paris-agreement-a8057546.html
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