Climate change: US and China must work together to cut carbon emissions, experts say


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HONG KONG, Oct 26 (SCMP): Environmental experts say the best way to curb the threat of climate change is for the world’s two biggest economies to collaborate on slashing carbon emissions. But amid other conflicts, China and the US are using environmental issues as another means to attack each other.

In two reports on the United States’ environment record issued this week, China’s foreign ministry described America as a “consensus-breaker and a troublemaker” with a “poor track record in the environmental field”.

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