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| China will honour its commitments on climate change, its premier has said, as the US appears poised to pull out of a key deal. | China will honour its commitments on climate change, its premier has said, as the US appears poised to pull out of a key deal. |
| Speaking on a visit to Germany, Premier Li Keqiang said fighting climate change was in China's own interest. | Speaking on a visit to Germany, Premier Li Keqiang said fighting climate change was in China's own interest. |
| China was counting on other countries to follow its example, Mr Li said. | China was counting on other countries to follow its example, Mr Li said. |
| US President Donald Trump is due to announce his decision on the 2015 Paris agreement later. Some reports in the US suggest he will withdraw. | US President Donald Trump is due to announce his decision on the 2015 Paris agreement later. Some reports in the US suggest he will withdraw. |
| "China will continue to implement the promises made in the Paris accord. But of course we also hope to do this with the co-operation of others," Mr Li said. | |
| As a big developing country, China had an "international responsibility" to try to prevent climate change, he added. | |
| Chinese and EU leaders are set to agree a joint statement on the Paris climate agreement, saying it is "an imperative more important than ever". | |
| The joint statement - a draft of which has been seen by the BBC - says rising temperatures affect national security and increase "social and political fragility", while the transition to clean energy creates jobs and economic growth. | |
| Russia also said it would stick to its climate commitments, but said the Paris agreement would be affected by a US pullout. | |
| "It goes without saying that the effectiveness of this convention is likely to be reduced without its key participants," a Kremlin spokesman said. | |
| Meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he was "anxious" at the prospect of a US withdrawal but said he believed Mr Trump was "genuinely thinking about the issue". | |
| Some of the biggest gains in tackling carbon emissions in the US had been made at state level rather than federal level, he added. | |
| Mr Trump's refusal to commit to the Paris agreement caused frustration at a G7 meeting last week, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel describing the discussion as "difficult, not to say dissatisfying". | |
| China overtook the US as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007. | |
| What was agreed in Paris? | |
| Climate change, or global warming, refers to the damaging effect of gases, or emissions, released from industry and agriculture on the atmosphere. | |
| The Paris accord is meant to limit the global rise in temperature attributed to emissions. | |
| Countries agreed to: | |
| To date, 147 out of 197 countries have ratified the accord, including the US, where it entered into force last November. |