<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(113, 115, 117); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(113, 115, 117);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Reuters </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">FEBRUARY 22, 2020 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(63, 63, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(113, 115, 117); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.reuters.com/news/archive/esgNews" class="">SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(63, 63, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(63, 63, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">U.S. blocking G20 mention of climate change in draft communique, diplomats say</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(63, 63, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(63, 63, 64);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-draft-climate/us-blocking-g20-mention-of-climate-change-in-draft-communique-diplomats-say-idUSKCN20G0J" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-draft-climate/us-blocking-g20-mention-of-climate-change-in-draft-communique-diplomats-say-idUSKCN20G0J</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(63, 63, 64); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(63, 63, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Concluding paragraphs:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">G20 sources said the United States was reluctant to accept language on climate change as a risk to the economy.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Usually China blocks as well, but as they are represented at lower level it’s mainly the U.S.,” one G20 diplomat said.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Climate is the last sticking point in the communique. There is still no agreement,” a second source familiar with the negotiations said.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 49, 50); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(49, 49, 50); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(113, 115, 117); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(113, 115, 117); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Reporting by Michael Nienaber and Andrea Shalal, writing by Jan Strupczewski</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(113, 115, 117); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(113, 115, 117); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(113, 115, 117);" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(63, 63, 64); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-draft-climate/us-blocking-g20-mention-of-climate-change-in-draft-communique-diplomats-say-idUSKCN20G0J" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: transparent;" class="">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-draft-climate/us-blocking-g20-mention-of-climate-change-in-draft-communique-diplomats-say-idUSKCN20G0J</span></a>>></span></div><div class="">
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