"U.S. and Chinese Climate Change Negotiators to Meet in Los Angeles"

"WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top climate change negotiator will meet with his Chinese counterpart in Los Angeles on Tuesday to announce joint actions by cities, states and provinces in both countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The summit meeting follows a historic accord reached in Beijing in November by Mr. Obama and President Xi Jinping, who pledged to enact policies to cut emissions significantly. Mr. Obama said the United States would reduce planet-warming carbon emissions up to 28 percent by 2025, while Mr. Xi vowed that China would halt its emissions growth by 2030.

That announcement by the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas polluters was seen as a breakthrough after decades of deadlock on efforts to forge an effective global accord on climate change. Now Mr. Obama and Mr. Xi are pushing for the completion of such an accord, signed by every nation on earth, at a United Nations summit meeting in Paris this fall."

Coral Davenport reports for the New York Times September 15, 2015.

Source: NY Times, 09/15/2015