Handshake sparks climate hope, but officials remain worried
November 13, 2022
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AP) — A handshake in lush Bali is being felt at climate talks thousands of miles away in the Egyptian desert, where lack of progress had a top United Nations official worried.
After more than a week of so far fruitless climate talks, negotiators were grasping for something themselves: Hope. It came in the form of a cordial greeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping, who met on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Indonesia.
Tensions between the world's two biggest polluters — whose cooperation is essential for any climate deal to work — have cast...
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