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China and the United states have formally joined the global agreement | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
on tackling climate change reached in Paris last year. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
The two countries represent 40% of the world's carbon emissions. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Speaking at a news conference ahead of the G20 summit in China, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
President Obama said the agreement might be remembered | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
as the moment we finally decided to save our planet. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Our correspondent John Sudworth reports | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
from the city hosting the summit, Hangzhou. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Under blue skies, free of the all-too-common scourge | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
the US president arrived in China with climate change on his mind. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
that it had ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
with President Xi Jinping speaking of his vision | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
And then it was President Obama's turn to announce that the US, too, | :01:07. | :01:26. | |
was ratifying the treaty much earlier than expected. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
that you need to put your money where your mouth is. | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
And when it comes to combating climate change, | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
The Paris Climate Agreement was signed at the end of last year | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
It aims to keep the average rise in global temperatures | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
if ratified by at least 55 countries | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
representing 55% of global carbon emissions. | :01:59. | :01:59. | |
The US and China together account for almost 40%, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
so today's announcement marks a big step forward. | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
US/China relations are often strained | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
but by making this joint announcement | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
here in front of the world's media, | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
President Xi gets to burnish his reputation | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
and President Obama, with just a few months left in office, | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
gets to cement his legacy on an important policy priority. | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
Critics of the Paris deal say it doesn't go far enough to curb | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
emissions but few can doubt the symbolism of the world's two | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
biggest polluters ratifying the document. | :02:44. | :02:44. | |
And by doing it here at the G20 summit, | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the hope is other nations will now be encouraged to follow suit. | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
One of the global leader is of course making her way here, Theresa | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
May has already come under pressure for Britain to ratify the Paris | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
climate accord. That pressure will only increase among what we have | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
seen today. I have been handed a statement from a spokesperson for | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the Prime Minister, it says that the government will ratify it as soon as | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
possible but there is no date yet. An NHS group in North Yorkshire has | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
said it could refuse non-emergency surgery to obese patients, | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
for up to a year The Vale of York Commissioning Group | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
says the move is just one which would also affect | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
people who smoke. Our correspondent Sharon Barbour | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
is outside York Hospital. What more can you tell us? What the | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
Vale of York clinical commissioning group has said is that is that it is | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
under severe financial pressure, wanting to save up to ?12 million in | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
the next year. It has come up with a plan, for those people who have a | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
body mass index of 30 or over, they may have to wait up to one year for | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
non-life-threatening surgery but life changing surgery, to knees and | :04:14. | :04:26. | |
hips, and smokers will have to give up smoking or wait up to six months | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
for surgery. The bishop of Grantham has become | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the first Church of England bishop to publicly announce that he is gay | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
and in a relationship. Bishop Nicholas Chamberlain, who is | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
connected to the Lincoln diocese, says he is in a "long-term, | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
committed" partnership and obeys the Church's | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
guidelines on celibacy. A Church of England spokesman said | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
the bishop hasn't "misled" anyone and has been open and truthful | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
about his private life. The use of microbeads are to be | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
banned in everyday bathroom products There are concerns | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
the microscopic pieces of plastic found in items such | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
as toothpaste and body scrubs Look closely and you still | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
can't see many of them. The chances are your bathroom | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
is full of them. as many as 100,000 going down | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
the drain 680 tonnes of plastic microbeads | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
are used in cosmetics every year, and of course if that | :05:18. | :05:35. | |
is in a shower gel it will pass straight down the drain | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
to sewage treatment. Some of it will be intercepted | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
there, but substantial quantities are likely to pass directly | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
into the sea, into rivers. There is concern they then | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
end up in our food. can contain up to 50 | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
particles of plastic. have voluntarily committed to | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
phasing out the use of microbeads. The United States has already | :05:56. | :06:07. | |
announced a ban. The Government says it will start | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
the consultation on its proposed ban soon, with the aim being the law | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
will be changed in under 18 months. The Government says it will also | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
gather evidence on the effect of beads in domestic | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
and industrial cleaning products. But they are also rubbed off car | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
tyres Green campaigners have | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
welcomed the ban, It is a reminder that | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
although some environmental damage we do is visible, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
plenty is not. You can see more on all of today's | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One is at 5.40 | :06:36. | :06:52. | |
pm, until then, bye for now. | :06:53. | :06:56. |