WASHINGTON, D.C.: The United States announced Friday (Saturday in Manila) it would still take part in international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests, despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming.

Two months after President Donald Trump announced the United States would abandon the 2015 global pact, his administration confirmed it had informed the United Nations of its "intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement"—a process that will take at least until 2020.

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