by Itunuoluwa Adebo
A meeting of Trump administration advisers that was been scheduled for Tuesday to decide whether the United States would be pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
According to senior administration officials briefed concerning the meeting, key advisers to President Donald Trump and cabinet officials were due to convene at the White House to resolve an internal debate over President Trump keeping his campaign promise to pull the US out of the Paris agreement.
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The aim of the meeting was to lay the groundwork for a formal proposal to Trump, who promised to announce a decision before a Group of Seven summit. Before the planned meeting, business groups and some lawmakers called on the White House to remain in the Paris agreement, while some conservative policy groups urged the advisers to recommend a withdrawal.
Meanwhile, representatives of nearly 200 countries that are party to the Paris agreement are meeting in Bonn this week to discuss technical aspects of implementing the accord. There is no information about when the meeting would be rescheduled.
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