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France investigates retailers over China forced labour claims

2021-07-02 16:34:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

French authorities investigate four brands over alleged human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region.

China, France Want 5-Year Updates to Climate Pledges

2015-11-03 15:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The Chinese and French presidents announced Monday they have agreed that a global climate change pact should require countries to review their emissions pledges every five years, in an important signal four weeks before world leaders meet in Paris. France is proposing the automatic increase of countries' emissions targets in a climate deal to be thrashed out at a U.N. conference beginning at the end of November. French President Francois Hollande said Monday that he and his Chinese counterpart wanted...

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China and France seek five-year reviews of planned UN climate deal

2015-11-02 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: China and France agreed on Monday to push for long-term monitoring of a U.N. accord to combat climate change due in Paris next month by reviewing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions every five years. Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed the timetable with summit host French President Francois Hollande, who is visiting China, as part of a joint plan to put the world economy "onto a low-carbon path in the course of this century". Top greenhouse gas emitter China agreed with France to stock-taking...

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France, China agree on climate change checks

2015-11-02 01:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: China and France agreed Monday that an international deal to tackle climate change to be negotiated in Paris should include checks on compliance, in what visiting French President Francois Hollande called a "historic" step forward. The Paris conference will be attended by at least 80 world leaders including China's President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama. It seeks to unite all the world's nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change, with the goal of capping warming at...

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