{"id":104265,"date":"2017-05-26T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=104265"},"modified":"2017-05-26T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:14:51","slug":"trump-evolving-on-climate-action-pressured-by-europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/26\/trump-evolving-on-climate-action-pressured-by-europeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;evolving&#8217; on climate action, pressured by Europeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95126\" style=\"width: 663px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-109.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95126\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-109.png\" alt=\"Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump \u201cmore knowledgeable\u201d and with \u201cevolving\u201d views about the global climate accord he's threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday. (Photo: Gage Skidmore\/ Flickr)\" width=\"663\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-109.png 663w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-109-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump \u201cmore knowledgeable\u201d and with \u201cevolving\u201d views about the global climate accord he&#8217;s threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/8567828196\/in\/photolist-e47mPN-e47jAC-e41Jw8-sc2gdA-segL58-rWJfw5-e47hHh-rWKnwC-kNDYwa-9VQfNH-g25GLQ-5nrmkz-g1XPzf-g25NZH-9hgBjx-5nrmkt-4SQYDD-9mEwWW-g25Md6-e7BGMN-kNFjPw-aWaU2n-d5X6uS-9yDPEb-oskUH-9DB5bx-NfkUFS-NGQDVF-NDDv5L-Nz3N82-Nww1xh-NDDu7U-MJQMLe-NDD8Fd-NwvYaw-MJQ7PX-MJQV7g-MJQ73M-NfksU1-NfkEkC-Nz4kGp-NGQpBF-NGQCYF-Nww7us-MJQ4nX-NDDNYm-Nz4p8c-NfmfoC-NDDajo-MJQWfi\">Gage Skidmore\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TAORMINA, Italy \u2014 Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump \u201cmore knowledgeable\u201d and with \u201cevolving\u201d views about the global climate accord he&#8217;s threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday. Trump also was impressed by their arguments about how crucial U.S. leadership is in supporting international efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s new apparent openness to staying in the landmark Paris climate pact came amid a determined pressure campaign by European leaders. During Friday&#8217;s gathering of the Group of 7 wealthy democracies \u2014 as well as at earlier stops on Trump&#8217;s first international trip \u2014 leaders have implored him to stick with the 2015 accord aimed at reducing carbon emissions and slowing potentially disastrous global warming.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the G-7 leaders \u201cput forward very many arguments\u201d for the U.S. sticking with the agreement. And by Friday evening, White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump&#8217;s views were indeed \u201cevolving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe feels much more knowledgeable on the topic today,\u201d Cohn said. \u201cHe came here to learn, he came here to get smarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While those comments were remarkable given Trump&#8217;s fierce criticism of the Paris deal as a candidate, they were also in keeping with his emerging pattern as president. A novice in international affairs, Trump has been surprisingly candid about the impact his conversations with world leaders have had in shaping his views on numerous issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAORMINA, Italy \u2014 Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump \u201cmore knowledgeable\u201d and with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,7265],"tags":[9869],"class_list":["post-104265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-weird","tag-donald-trump","mauthors-julie-pace-and-jonathan-lemire","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}