The United States was also expected to announce that it was formally joining the Paris Agreement in advance of the Group of 20 summit that starts Sunday in in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. China had said in April that it would ratify the Paris Agreement, negotiated by representatives of 195 nations in Paris last year, before its hosting of the G-20 summit. The agreement goes into force when joined by at least 55 nations that produce a total of 55 percent of global emissions. If the agreement is eventually adopted, he said, "we'll have a truly global climate agreement that will bind the two biggest emitters in the world." Under the Paris Agreement, countries are required to set national targets for reducing or reining in their greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Fox News September 03, 2016 03:45 UTC