M2: After the Paris conference last December, both China and the US were big players in reaching an agreement that set a 2030 deadline for halting the rise in emissions, reports The Independent. It was their "shared conviction that climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity." Now, the two countries responsible for 38% of the world`s man-made carbon dioxide emissions have formally ratified, in what President Obama called 'moment we decided to save our planet.`
Obama said that the...