U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced today that the United States and China are formally joining the Paris Agreement on climate change.

This caps a remarkable two years of bilateral cooperation on climate change following their joint announcement in 2014, when they revealed their respective greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets, and their joint announcement in 2015, when they agreed on key provisions for what would become the groundbreaking Paris Agreement on global climate change.

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