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Trump Is Still Sending a Team to World’s Biggest Climate Summit

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President Donald Trump may be withdrawing the U.S. from the international Paris accord to fight global warming, but he’s still sending a delegation to the world’s largest climate change summit next month.

The U.S. will dispatch a team to the United Nations’s annual climate change gathering in Madrid that will mirror the delegation at last year’s summit, according to the State Department, signaling that the group will probably consist of career diplomats and lower-ranking officials. The delegation will engage in negotiations to protect U.S. interests and ensure a level playing field for U.S. businesses, the agency said.