The US has put off a meeting to decide on whether it will pull out of the historic Paris Climate Agreement, a White House official has confirmed.
The meeting of Trump administration advisers had been scheduled to take place later today to decide if the new Commander in Chief and his staff were to pull out of the deal to avoid a global rise in warming by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
President Trump was previously reported as saying climate change was a “hoax” and appointed well known scepctics of the phenomena to office including Scott Pruitt who now heads up the Environmental Protection Agency.
The White House said today’s meeting had been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
During his campaign, Trump vowed to pull the US out of the Paris deal, brokered last year.
The White House official did not say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
A decision is expected before the next G7 meeting at the end of May.
Meanwhile, representatives of nearly 200 countries that are party to the Paris agreement are meeting in Bonn this week to discuss technical aspects of implementing the accord.
And US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former head of oil supermajor Exxon, will host the biennial Arctic Council meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, later this week.
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