US Seeks To Block Climate Mention In G20 Statement

Reuters reports:

The United States is against mentioning climate change in the communique of the world’s financial leaders, G20 diplomats said, after a new draft of the joint statement showed the G20 are considering including it as a risk factor to growth.

Finance ministers and central bankers of the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) are discussing top global economic challenges on Saturday and Sunday in Riyadh, focusing on the growth outlook and new rules to tax global digital companies.

G20 sources said the United States was reluctant to accept language on climate change as a risk to the economy. “Usually China blocks as well, but as they are represented at lower level it’s mainly the U.S.,” one G20 diplomat said.