"Climate change will not be on the agenda," said Mick Mulvaney, Trump's chief of staff. US President Donald Trump has made a habit of standing aside from all climate initiatives at major international meetings. The summit is scheduled for June 2020, in Florida, at a Donald Trump golf club.
As a climate-skeptic, he is the only leader in the world who has withdrawn his country from the Paris agreement. The fate of the Amazon, the largest rainforest on the planet in the throes of fires, had been at the heart of the G7 summit in August in Biarritz, in the south-west of France.