BY REUTERS | UPDATED: MAY 17, 2017, 08.08 PM IST
BONN, Germany: Many countries are pinning their hopes on China and India to lead efforts to slow climate changeamid a growing sense of resignation that US President Donald Trump will either withdraw from a global pact or stay and play a minimal role.
Delegates at the May 8-18 negotiations in Bonn on a detailed "rule book" for the 2015 Paris Agreement, the first UN talks since Trump took office, say there is less foreboding than when Washington last broke with global climate efforts in 2001.
Trump doubts global warming has a human cause and says he will decide on a campaign threat to "cancel" the Paris Agreement, the first to bind all nations to set goals to curb emissions, after a
group of Seven summit in Italy on May 26-27
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