China, US pledge to reveal 2035 emissions targets in 2025

China and the United States will communicate their 2035 targets for cutting climate-warming emissions ten years early in 2025, according to a joint statement released on Wednesday at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow.

Thursday, November 11, 2021 02:26

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The declaration said the two countries also planned to improve the measurement of methane emissions before the next climate summit, COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

It says China plans to develop an ambitious and comprehensive national action plan to bring down methane emissions in the 2020s.

Reuters

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