Boston scraps summit on climate with China
As the Trump administration considers withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said Wednesday that plans to hold an international climate summit in Boston this summer, an event announced to fanfare last year in Beijing, have been scrapped for lack of federal support.
“The administration just hasn’t been responding to us to see if they’re interested in working on bringing folks here,” Walsh said at a City Hall news conference, held amid reports that President Trump may be poised to abandon the landmark climate agreement. “It doesn’t seem like there’s any interest at all in moving forward.”
Trump, who campaigned against the Paris agreement and has called climate change a hoax, said on Twitter Wednesday night that he would announce his decision about whether to remain in the pact at 3 p.m. Thursday at the White House.
The State Department-sponsored summit in Boston, revealed last June by then-secretary of state John F. Kerry, would have brought thousands of urban and business leaders to Boston from cities across the United States and China. It would have been the third such conference.
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