China Just Agreed to Its First Ever Carbon Cap. Will It Be Enough?

China Just Agreed to Its First Ever Carbon Cap. Will It Be Enough?

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The surprising deal announced between China and the U.S. on Tuesday that gives both nations long-term carbon-reduction targets has upped the game ahead of international climate negotiations next year.

Under the deal, China will cap emissions by 2030, although a peak could come earlier. And the U.S. agreed to greenhouse-gas cuts of 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, an extension of the current pledge to cut 17 percent by 2020.

China just agreed to its first carbon cap. Will it be enough?

-National Journal 11/12/2014

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