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.
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