Trump Unlikely To Be Able To Renegotiate Climate Deal: UN Climate Chief

"Donald Trump would be 'highly unlikely' to be able to renegotiate the global accord on climate change if elected U.S. president, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Wednesday, as doing so would require the agreement of 195 countries.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told Reuters earlier this month he was 'not a big fan' of the climate accord and would seek to renegotiate elements of the deal.

'As we all know, Donald Trump relishes making very dramatic statements on many issues, so it is not surprising, but it is highly unlikely that that would be possible," Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, told journalists at the Carbon Expo event in Cologne."

Susanna Twidale reports for Reuters May 25, 2016.

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