At the Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday, about two dozens of China and U.S. local governments announced their ambitious plans to combat the climate change.
"Cooperation on climate change is not only critical to the future of our planet, but a major milestone in the U.S.-China relationship," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday.
Her all-out efforts quickly caught the attention of the Bangladesh people who have felt the pinch of climate change over the last years.
"Cooperation on climate change is not only critical to the future of our planet, but a major milestone in the U.S.-China relationship," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday.
Dealing with the effects of climate change is an uphill battle that involves all nations, big and small, rich and poor. During his upcoming state visit to the United States in late September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. host Barack Obama are likely to exhibit even stronger aspiration and resolution to help our planet, together with other countries, win the make-or-break battle.
Australia and New Zealand might be asked to leave the Pacific Islands Forum or face a walkout by other leaders if they do not support stronger action on climate change, Kiribati's president hinted on Tuesday.
China and the European Union (EU) issued a joint statement on climate change during their leaders' meeting on Monday.
China and the European Union (EU) issued a joint statement on climate change during their leaders' meeting on Monday.
A highly unpredictable hot and dry climate prevented large plant-eating dinosaurs from dominating tropical regions near the equator for up to 30 million years after they first evolved, a new research suggested Monday.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday that amidst increasing temperatures, extreme precipitations and flooding, a plethora of evidence continues to suggest that climate change is mainly a consequence of human activities and related greenhouse gases.
The annual United Nations climate talks finally wrapped up in Lima, Peru, in the wee hours of Sunday, achieving an acceptable but not satisfying result and leaving unresolved issues to the climate conference in Paris in December 2015.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Sunday welcomed Lima accord on climate change which he said prepared the ground for Paris's next year gathering to forge concrete measures aimed at slowing increases in global temperature, droughts, floods, storms, and sea-level rise.
China has been striving to take a new road of urbanization featured by intensive land use, smart city, and green and low carbon development, China's top climate negotiator said in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday.
The draft pact to be reach in Lima is vital as it will provide a sound basis for a binding climate agreement in Paris in 2015, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday, urging negotiators at a UN climate conference in Peru to take united action to produce a balanced and coherent draft text.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will join the ongoing UN climate talks being held in Lima, as first week of negotiations in the Peruvian capital ended with no breakthrough, the State Department said Tuesday.
China attaches great importance to South-South cooperation in tackling global climate change, and efforts to achieve common development, a senior Chinese official said here on Monday.
As world leaders depart Brisbane following a successful but sometimes tense G20 summit, one unresolved issue will be accompanying them home like an unwanted piece of excess baggage.
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