Full implementation of the 2015 Paris climate accord should be advocated by the European Union at the forthcoming UN climate summit despite U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the agreement, the European Parliament's environment committee decided Sept. 7. The committee voted 54-0, with six abstentions, for a nonbinding resolution that sets out EU priorities for the Nov. 6-17 meeting in Bonn, Germany. Among its main goals, the EU should push for more climate funding to aid poorer countries and prepare for 2018 when a "fa-cilitative dialogue" on countries' emissions reductions commitments will start, the resolution says.
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