European leaders will mount a last-ditch effort this week to persuade president Donald Trump to stick with the landmark Paris agreement on climate change he has threatened to abandon.
French president Emmanuel Macron and his counterparts intend to seize on the US leader’s first visit to Europe to salvage the agreement to tackle global warming struck in 2015 after months of painstaking negotiation.
“It has to be a collective effort,” a French official said yesterday, ahead of Mr Trump’s appearance at a Nato summit in Brussels today and a G7 meeting in Sicily on Friday. “Everybody is going to try to push the US president towards the same direction.”