World leaders pledge climate cooperation despite other rifts

Joe Biden, President of the United States, Photo Date: February 10, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — China and Russia have joined the United States in pledging climate cooperation at a global summit led by President Joe Biden. The U.S. convened Thursday’s summit, which is being held virtually by livestream because of the pandemic, with an ambitious pledge to cut by at least one-half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that America is putting out. Biden hopes the U.S. commitment will