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Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has urged Donald Trump to instrumentality to planetary efforts to combat clime change.
The White House has claimed "climate goals" are "killing different countries and would person killed America" without Mr Trump's intervention.
Speaking to Sky News earlier the COP30 clime talks, which commencement contiguous successful Brazil, Mr Ban said: "The clime situation does not attraction wherever you are living, [whether in] United States oregon China oregon European countries.
"If we unrecorded together, we each live. If we die, we each dice together."
He called it "deeply regrettable" that the US - which is the "most powerful, astir resourceful, and astir influential country" - is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement for the 2nd time.
The landmark pact, struck astatine COP21 successful 2015, is the world's astir important and lone legally binding clime treaty.
It aims to bounds warming to 1.5C-2C supra pre-industrial levels, and obliges countries to nutrient clime plans each 5 years detailing however they volition present connected their stock of the bargain.
Yesterday, the COP30 big squad of Brazilians said 108 person present been submitted - meaning much than a 3rd are inactive missing.
Mr Ban, who was UN main astatine the clip of the Paris talks, said affluent Western states, not conscionable America, request to measurement up.
"They indispensable amusement their strongest imaginable enactment and the fig 1 priority. This is lone 1 world we have. We don't person immoderate different spot to move."
The erstwhile UN main present heads up the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens, which works with decision-makers to instrumentality the Paris Agreement and UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
The US is the world's biggest system and the second-largest clime polluter aft China.
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Mr Ban said: "The full satellite is present awaiting for the United States to show their governmental enactment astatine this captious time. That's my honorable entreaty to the United States president."
Donald Trump is not sending immoderate "high-level" officials to COP30.
But the White House has been coy astir whether different representatives similar negotiators volition attend.
White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Sky News: "The Green New Scam would person killed America if President Trump had not been elected to instrumentality his communal consciousness vigor docket - which is focused connected utilising the liquid golden nether our feet to fortify our grid stableness and thrust down costs for American families and businesses.
"President Trump volition not jeopardise our country's economical and nationalist information to prosecute vague clime goals that are sidesplitting different countries."
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