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1st LD: China, U.S. hand over instruments of joining Paris Agreement to Ban Ki-moon

Xinhua, September 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Presidents of China and the United States handed over their countries' instruments of joining the Paris Agreement separately to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon on Saturday in Hangzhou.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said that climate change concerns the well-being and future of humanity. The Paris Agreement has charted the course for post-2020 global cooperation against climate change, and it indicates that a cooperative, win-win, equitable and fair climate change governance mechanism is being shaped.

The handover of the legal document is a new and solemn commitment of the Chinese government, he said. Endi