Sentences with phrase «china joint pledge»
Li Keqiang, China's prime minister, said in a statement the country «will work hard» to peak its CO2 emissions before 2030, which was its previous commitment as part of the United States - China joint pledge from November 2014, the first time China had agreed to mitigate emissions.
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The biggest step facilitating progress in Paris actually came just over a year ago in Beijing, when President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China unveiled a joint package of pledges and plans on climate change after the countries had spent years locked in a «you first» standoff.
On Nov 11, 2014, China and the US made a joint climate pledge for the Paris conference covering 2020 to 2030.
Mr. Obama's plan, part of a formal written submission to the United Nations ahead of efforts to forge a global climate change accord in Paris in December, detailed the United States» part of an ambitious joint pledge made by Mr. Obama and President Xi Jinping of China in November.