G20 sounds alarm over climate emergency despite US objections
by Richard Partington Economics correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#4ZRFV)
Group's first ever reference to global heating signals growing economic concerns over climate change
The G20 group of the world's wealthiest nations have agreed for the first time to collectively sound the alarm over the threat to the financial system posed by the climate emergency.
Overcoming objections from Donald Trump's US administration, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Saudi Arabia over the weekend agreed to issue their first ever communique with references to climate change, according to reports from Reuters.
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