Last month’s flooding in Venice highlighted concerns about climate change. Photo: EPA-EFE

China and EU try to forge common front to lead fight against climate change

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Topic | Climate crisis

Echo Xie in Beijing

Albert Han

Published: 10:30pm, 4 Dec, 2019

Updated: 6:27pm, 5 Dec, 2019

Last month’s flooding in Venice highlighted concerns about climate change. Photo: EPA-EFE

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Echo Xie

Echo is a Beijing-based Chinese politics and policy reporter. Before joining the SCMP, she worked for Jiemian news and the CSMonitor Beijing Bureau. She has a master's in journalism from Shantou University.

Albert Han

Albert Han is a Graduate Trainee reporter for the Post. He joined in 2019 after graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, he worked as a freelance journalist in Barcelona, Spain, covering the Catalan independence movement in 2017.