China and the United States today announced an agreement to fight climate
change that will include cuts in their emissions of greenhouse gases they expect an example to the international level.
The initiative, agreed by President
Xi Jinping and
Barack Obama, is the first announcement of cutting emissions by China and
a more pronounced by the United
States.
China agrees that its emission levels
reach their highest level in 2030 to begin to
decline, and Xi announced that this year
20 percent of the energy produced
in the country come from clean, renewable sources.
For its part, the United States will reduce its emissions by 2025 between 26 and 28
percent compared to 2005 levels,
which is double the planned cut between 2005 and 2020.
Xi and Obama made
the announcement during an appearance
before reporters after two days of meetings in Beijing, which have reviewed all levels of their relationship, with the agreement on
climate change as the main tangible result.
The agreement on climate change, which has been negotiating for months between the two capitals, seeks to promote a
global agreement at
the climate change conference
to be held in Paris in 2015.
