| The November 11 US-China deal to curb carbon emissions is a major step forward for the campaign to address climate change. It's also something of a shock: for a long time, the US-China rivalry had been a major stumbling block in the way of an international agreement on global warming. What happened?
Essentially, the US and China started talking on their own. Tension between the US and China has helped ruin the UN global climate talks, the main attempt to reach a worldwide accord. But now these secret bilateral negotiations between the two powers have helped break a major part of the trap US-China conflict had created for global negotiations...............................................Full Article: Source
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