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US-China tensions threaten global climate change efforts

by Ellen KnickmeyerChristina Larson
| March 3, 2021 10:06 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s hopes for curbing climate change hinge on action by two giant nations whose relations are deteriorating: China and the United States. The two countries both say they are intent on retooling their economies to burn less climate-wrecking coal, oil and gas. But tensions between them threaten their ultimate success.

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