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China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced.Mr Xi outlined the steps when speaking via videolink to the UN General Assembly in New York.The announcement is being seen as a significant step in the fight against climate change. China is the world's biggest source of carbon dioxide, responsible for around 28% of global emissions.With global climate negotiations stalled and this year's conference of the parties (COP26) postponed until 2021, there had been little expectation of progress on the issue at the UN General Assembly.However China's president surprised the UN gathering by making a bold statement about his country's plans for tackling emissions. He call...

Amid all the bad news about the environment there is one chink of light - the Earth's ozone layer is healing, scientists say. And the good news includes the huge hole above Antarctica, which is expected to completely vanish by the 2060s.According to a UN report, the upper layer of ozone over the northern hemisphere will be repaired by 2030, and the damage over the southern hemisphere will be back to normal by the middle of the century.The ozone layer's increasing health has been put down to the 1987 Montreal Protocol - an international treaty banning ozone-depleting chemicals, including chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), alongside new technology. Image: The banning of CFCs has helped to repair the ozone hole above Antarctica ...

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Climate change: China aims for ‘carbon neutrality by 2060’

Ozone hole above Antarctica could be repaired by 2060