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US and China set aside rifts for climate accord - NY Times headline

Originally Posted on September 5, 2016

President Obama and President Xi Jinping formally committed the world's two largest economies to the Paris climate agreement at the G20 meetings on Saturday, cementing their partnership on climate change.

This despite friction in areas that range from trade, to maritime security, to computer hacking.

The fact that "they set aside those tensions to work together yet again on a joint plan to reduce greenhouse gases attests to the pragmatic personal rapport they have built." [1]

It also represents the growing global consensus the Climate Change  is a real and present danger - one that we all need to address. 

Kudos, from The Earth Initiative

 

[1] Mark Landler and Jane Perlez for the NY Times Septmber 4th, 2016


  


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