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EU Calls On China, U.S. to ‘Step Up’ on Global Climate Fight

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The European Union has pledged to deepen its emissions reductions by at least 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels. Almost a third of nations globally committed in 2015 to revise their pollution-cutting goals by 2020, including China. The European Commission president used her annual state of the union address to call on China and other nations to join the EU.

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