The former New York mayor was speaking at the UN’s climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, during the launch of the America’s Pledge report. “If this group were a country, we’d be the third-biggest economy in the world. “The American government may have pulled out of the Paris accord but the American people are still committed to its goals,” Bloomberg said. Fiji told it must spend billions to adapt to climate change Read moreThe packed America’s Pledge launch event took place in the US Climate Action Center, an inflatable dome that the alternative US delegation is using as its headquarters. Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said she would take the report to the official parties at the conference centre.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2017 15:45 UTC