“A Historic Agreement”. So Barack Obama defined the agreement reached between China and the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a view to a global agreement next year, when the climate conference is held in Paris. The two countries are responsible for about 45% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
The agreement requires the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% by 2025, while Beijing aims for a gradual reduction starting from 2030, the year in which emissions are expected to peak.
The announcement of the agreement on emissions sparked heated reactions from the Republicans who, from the United States, defined the agreement reached by Obama as "an unrealistic project which the President will offload to his successor and which will certainly involve higher prices for the energy and far fewer jobs”.
Meanwhile, in the joint conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Obama clarified that the United States has no role in the street protests that have been going on for more than six weeks in Hong Kong, thus responding to the accusations of the Chinese authorities and the official media, who had blamed "foreign forces" and "Westerners" for supporting the "Occupy Central" movement, which calls for greater democracy in the former British colony.
