01.10.2015 - World leaders bolster climate talks
Some 150 world leaders are attending meetings in New York City for the landmark 70th United Nations General Assembly. One of the key achievements of the session, following Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s mini global-warming summit, is that much-needed momentum is building a new climate-change treaty that aims to be finalised in Paris in December. The negotiations have been catalysed by major announcements in recent days by three of the world’s largest economies: China, India and the United States. Most prominently, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama released on Friday a common vision document for securing a new global climate treaty in December, underpinned by a pledge that China will launch in 2017 a national carbon emission trading system covering power generation, steel, cement and other key industrial sectors...............................................Full Article: Source
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