China-US tensions could dominate climate summit


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China-US tensions could dominate climate summit WASHINGTON: Global momentum is building on the climate crisis but action will be impossible without two nations, China and the United States, which together account for more than half of emissions -- and whose governments do not get along. Ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, experts believe that breakthrough US-China cooperation could be the catalyst for a historic agreement on climate change -- but also that frosty ties between Washington and Beijing are not, so to speak, the end of the world. Both nations have stepped up efforts to curb emissions, although analysts...