Climate change: Earth Day summit aims for more consensus on cutting emissions | Climate

Climate change: UK’s carbon footprint down by 17% as pandemic helps move to eco-friendly lifestyles China’s President Xi Jinping made a late announcement that he would attend after a jointly released US-China statement pledged increased co-operation in the fight against climate change. Many observers were pleased that China, the world’s largest polluter, used the word “crisis” to describe climate change for the first time. But others have said that in order for the world to limit warming to 2C and to keep the target of 1.5C “within sight”, China has to cut its emissions further and faster, and provide a…