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U.S., China Agree to New Cuts to Combat Climate Change

The world's two biggest economies agree to new targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Photograph by Mandel Ngan/AFP
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President Barack Obama pledged deeper U.S. cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and China will for the first time set a target for capping carbon emissions under an agreement between the world’s two biggest economies.

Culminating months of behind-the-scenes negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials, Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined the accord, which they said would help push other nations to negotiate a global pact next year in Paris.