By Kieran Cooke
New research suggests that global emission reduction targets are achievable if China and the US – the world’s worst emitters of greenhouse gases − work together to reduce pollution levels.
LONDON, 29 October, 2014 – Tentative steps have been taken by China and the US towards co-operating on climate change − mainly focusing on relatively modest technological schemes connected with more efficient and less polluting power generation.
But a new report calls on the two countries to be far more ambitious, and says that if the two adopt what’s called global best practice on climate change policy, total global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) would be radically reduced, and the goal of limiting the global average temperature rise to 2˚C by 2050 could be achieved. >>
Smoke belches from a coal-fired energy plant in the US state of Wyoming
Image: Greg Goebel via Wikimedia Commons
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