China, US deliver joint climate statement

China, US deliver joint climate statement China and the United States will join forces to tackle climate change in the current decade. Chinese chief negotiator Xie Zhenhua and his US colleague John Kerry said this at the Glasgow climate summit on Wednesday evening, international news agencies reported. In a joint statement, the two countries say they "recognize the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis". The countries want to cooperate, among other things, in the reduction of greenhouse gases COâ‚‚ and methane. China and the United States are the world's largest economies and also the world's largest COâ‚‚ emitters. Before…