Obama preps for climate change talks in Asia

Published August 30, 2016 1:01am ET



President Obama will focus on climate change before and during next week’s G20 Summit in China, where he is likely to announce major new actions on implementing last year’s Paris accord, according to a senior adviser.

Climate change will be high on the agenda when Obama sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top officials going into the major meeting of industrialized nations, Brian Deese, the president’s senior climate adviser, told reporters Monday.

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