U.S. and China release new joint climate pledge
CBSN
The U.S. and China released a joint agreement Wednesday affirming the two superpowers and adversaries would work together to combat the climate crisis, with specific urgency this decade.
The agreement states that both nations, the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters, will establish a working group "which will meet regularly" to discuss climate measures. China produces 27% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, significantly more than the rest of the developed world. The U.S., the next biggest emitter, produces 11%.
The pledge comes as China's commitment to Paris Agreement goals have been in question as negotiations take place at the U.N. global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.