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Urgent: China pledges deep cuts of CO2 emissions

Xinhua, September 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

China will lower carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 60-65 percent from the 2005 level by 2030, says a China-U.S. joint presidential statement released Friday.

In the document, issued during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States, China also pledges to increase the forest stock volume by 4.5 billion cubic meters on the 2005 level by 20