China pledges to cut greenhouse emissions for the first time

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Beijing has for the first time ever unveiled pledges to cut, not just limit, greenhouse emissions. A significant step from the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, experts nonetheless suggest the country could do more to counter the impacts of the climate crisis. But for local communities in China’s coal mining regions, long dependent on fossil fuels, the changes are also set to impact their way of life.