US 🇺🇸 hints it may not withdraw from Paris 🇫🇷 Climate Accord

US envoy signalled that President Donald Trump may be ready to soften his stance on the Paris climate pact.

Any shift in the US position on the historic deal could be hugely significant, after Trump announced in June that he was abandoning the 2015 agreement.

The United States "stated that they will not renegotiate the Paris Accord, but they try to review the terms on which they could be engaged under this agreement," said the European Union's top climate official Miguel Arias Canete.

He said there would be a meeting on the sidelines of next week's UN General Assembly with American representatives "to assess what is the real US position," but noted "it's a message which is quite different to the one we heard from President Trump in the past."

But later on Saturday evening, the White House reaffirmed that the United States is still planning to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, despite recent reports that claim the Trump administration has flip flopped on its original intention to back out.

The administration’s statement came in response to reports that President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Everett Eissenstat had announced plans that appeared to soften the White House’s stance on the Paris climate accord.

The White House quickly shut that notion down and released a status saying, “There has been no change in the United States’ position on the Paris agreement. As the President has made abundantly clear, the United States is withdrawing unless we can re-enter on terms that are more favorable to our country.”

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