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China, US announce ambitious climate change goals
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THE world's two biggest economies on Wednesday announced ambitious goals and pledged joint efforts to tackle climate change in the next 15 years.
China and the United States announced their respective post-2020 goals of coping with climate change in a joint announcement issued after the two countries' presidents held talks Wednesday in Beijing.
The United States intends to achieve "an economy-wide target of reducing its emissions by 26 to 28 percent below its 2005 level in 2025" and to make best efforts to reduce its emissions by 28 percent, according to the announcement.
China intends to achieve the peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent by 2030.
They will also jointly push international climate change negotiations for the adoption of a protocol at the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris next year.
China and the U.S. will also step up cooperation in the fields of clean energy and environmental protection, said the announcement.
President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held talks with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama, underscoring commitment to building a new type of major-country relations between the world's two largest economies.
Obama arrived in Beijing Monday to attend the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting and pay a state visit to China at Xi's invitation.
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