Trump still not backing Paris climate agreement - Italy's PM


  • World
  • Saturday, 27 May 2017

Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni (R) talks to U.S. President Donald Trump while posing for a family photo at the start of G7 Summit at Greek Theatre in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, May 26, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

ROME (Reuters) - President Donald Trump still refuses to back the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, blocking efforts by world leaders meeting in Sicily to get the new U.S. leader to endorse the treaty, Italy's prime minister said on Friday.

But there was agreement on other issues such as Syria, Libya and fighting terrorism, Paolo Gentiloni told reporters in Taormina, Italy, where the heads of the world's seven major industrialised economies (G7) are meeting.

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