Spicer: Trump will not announce Paris climate decision until after G7

President Donald Trump will not announce whether the United States will pull out of the Paris climate agreement until after he returns from the G7 leaders’ summit in late May, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.

“The president has been meeting with his team for quite a while on this matter,” Spicer told reporters at the afternoon White House briefing.


The administration has postponed making a final decision on the agreement multiple times, as Trump’s advisers are reportedly split over whether to reaffirm the commitment to the deal or ditch it.

The United States, alongside more than 100 other countries, signed onto the accord under former President Barack Obama, seeking to limit greenhouse gas emissions in member countries and fight back against climate change.

Some senior members of the Trump administration — including the president — have questioned the validity of climate science in the past. Scientists overwhelmingly agree that human activity is the main cause of the rise in global temperatures.