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Beijing may grab climate leadership at UN talks with Trump pulling out

Nov 6-17 annual meeting in Bonn "will be a great free advertisement for China", says a European minister

Published Sun, Nov 5, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Bonn

CHINA has a chance to assert leadership of a global plan to combat global warming this week at the first United Nations (UN) climate talks since US President Donald Trump decided to quit the 195-nation Paris Agreement, delegates say.

Government experts are to work on a "rule book" for the 2015 climate pact at the Nov 6-17 annual meeting in Bonn, Germany.

The accord seeks to end the fossil fuel era this century with a shift to wind, solar and other clean energies.

Mr Trump once dismissed climate change as a Chinese hoax to harm the US economy and said in June that he would pull out of the agreement and i…

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