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China, U.S. to increase climate cooperation
Part of: Prelims and GS-III – Climate change
Context The world’s top carbon polluters, China and the United States, have agreed to increase their cooperation and speed up action to rein in climate-damaging emissions, signalling a mutual effort on global warming.
Key takeaways
- The two countries would work together to accelerate the emissions reductions required to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
- China also agreed for the first time to crack down on methane leaks.
- Both countries have agreed to share technology to reduce emissions.
- During Paris Agreement also Governments had agreed to jointly cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep the global temperature rise “well below” 2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, with a more stringent target of trying to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius preferred.
