Climate Change:

US and China Strike Deal on Carbon Cuts in Push for Global Climate Change Pact (The Guardian)

Barack Obama aims for reduction of a quarter or more by 2025, while Xi Jinping sets goal for emissions to fall after 2030

 US President Barack Obama looks on as Chinese President Xi Jinping
speaks during a joint press conference in the Great Hall of the People
in Beijing Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images

The United States and China have unveiled a secretly negotiated deal to reduce their greenhouse gas output, with China agreeing to cap emissions for the first time and the US committing to deep reductions by 2025.

The pledges in an agreement struck between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jingping, provide an important boost to international efforts to reach a global deal on reducing emissions beyond 2020 at a United Nations meeting in Paris next year.

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