China and US push through tensions in reaching climate deal

Photo caption: A worker uses a torch to cut steel pipes in China’s northern Hebei province. China for the first time vowed to make “meaningful absolute power sector emission reduction.” Photo credit: Greg Baker / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Zack Colman. Politico – updated November 15, 2023.

China, the world’s largest climate polluter, has agreed in a deal with the United States to reduce planet-warming emissions from the power sector this decade and committed for the first time to curb all greenhouse gases. The statement announcing the deal issued by Special Climate Envoy John Kerry and […]

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