Environment News Service: Transcending their disagreements over Syrian chemical weapons, the G-20 leaders managed to reach agreement on confronting climate change in two ways. They will phase down refrigerant greenhouse gases and phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
In the St. Petersburg Declaration released today at the close of the summit, the G-20 leaders state, "Climate change will continue to have a significant impact on the world economy, and cost will be higher to the extent we delay additional actions."...