The U.S. And China Inch Toward Cooperation On Climate — Thrilling Other Countries

One month after U.S. and Chinese officials publicly attacked each other at their first summit of the Biden administration, the two governments issued a rare joint statement on April 17 saying they share a major goal: tackling “the climate crisis… with the seriousness and urgency that it demands.”

The commitment offered a big reason for optimism about the global fight against climate change. Coming just before President Joe Biden’s high-profile international climate summit on April 22 and 23, the pledge suggested that the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases...