"BOLOGNA, Italy -- Rifts between the United States and its leading industrial allies over climate change deepened on Monday when Washington refused to subscribe fully to a Group of Seven statement on the environment.

The U.S. said it would not sign up to a pledge by Italy, Canada, Japan, France, Britain and Germany which called the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change "irreversible" and key for the "security and prosperity of our planet".

As a consequence, Washington formally refused to back multilateral development banks -- bodies designed to finance poorer nations and help them reduce their pollution emissions."

Stephen Jewkes reports for Reuters June 12, 2017. [2]

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12 June 2017 Communiqué (G7 Bologna Environment Ministers) [3]

"U.S. Refuses to Join G7 Climate Change Declaration" (InsideClimate News) [4]