China and EU strengthen commitment to Paris deal with US poised to step away
Source: The Guardian
China and the EU will forge an alliance to take a leading role in tackling climate change in response to Donald Trump’s expected decision to pull the US out of the historic Paris agreement.
Amid growing fears that the US will soon join Nicaragua and Syria on the small list of countries refusing to back the climate accord, signed in 2015, Beijing and Brussels have been preparing to announce their intention to accelerate joint efforts to reduce global carbon emissions.
According to a statement being prepared before an EU-China summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, the new alliance will say they are determined to “lead the energy transition” toward a low-carbon economy.
The EU’s climate commissioner, Miguel Arias Cañete, told the Guardian: “The EU and China are joining forces to forge ahead on the implementation of the Paris agreement and accelerate the global transition to clean energy.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/31/china-eu-climate-lead-paris-agreement
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it's like the fall of the Roman Empire and Chinese Dynasties
We are only 241 yrs old & doomed under the most arrogant ignoramus in the world
China is back due to foresight
