monday. all eyes are on this meeting. as we know, tensions are quite high, and china and the u.s. need each other when it comes to working together on combatting climate change. how important is their cooperation? well, it s critical at this stage that everybody look for what we can do individually as well as on the global stage to combat rising emissions. the u.s. had the summer passage of the inflation reduction act and the biden administration poised to bring our emissions down 40% by 2030, you know, not enough to reach that 50% reduction by 2030 to limit warming to that 1.5-degree celsius. but just yesterday at cop27, the biden administration saying they were doubling down on their efforts to combat rising methane emissions in this country with pledges to reduce methane