NEW YORK, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices rallied Wednesday as official data showed that U.S. crude inventories declined for a ninth straight week.
The West Texas Intermediate for August delivery climbed 0.29 U.S. dollar to settle at 44.94 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for September delivery added 0.51 dollar to close at 47.17 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. Enditem
by Xinhua Writer Qiao Jihong
HAMBURG jordan 13 retro wheat , Germany, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The two-day Group of 20(G20) summit in Hamburg ended on Saturday with no consensus on theclimate change.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the U.S. withdrawalfrom the Paris Agreement as "regrettable", as she closed the summitand presented the G20 declaration.
But she said all the other 19 members of G20 agreed that theParis climate accord was irreversible and remained committed toit.
On the other most focused issue of free trade, although the G20leaders reached an agreement on free trade, it seemed there werestrong differences among members, as Merkel said in her remarks"the talks were very difficult."
"You can notice that controversies within the G20 aresubstantial about trade and climate change jordan 13 wheat 2017 , even aboutmultilateralism itself," Dr. Dirk Messner, Director of GermanDevelopment Institute told Xinhua during the Summit.
The co-chairman of Think 20, a think tank for G20, said thatinternational community has changed dramatically in the last threeyears, which posed new challenges to G20 leaders.
He said 2015 was a very important year for multilateralism. Inthis year jordan 13s wheat , the Paris Agreement was achieved and the 2030 Agenda wassigned by all the nations around the world. But 2016 was "a shock"as U.S. President Donald Trump made the year "very difficult formultilateralism".
The year of 2017 is again different as Britain started procedureof exiting from the European Union and Trump announced getting outfrom the Paris climate change agreement, he noted. Fortunately, theFrench election went well, serving as a great relief for theworld.
Compared to the Hangzhou Summit in China last year, he added,G20 leaders are dealing with a more complex world this year inHamburg.
Professor Gu Xuewu jordan 13 wheat shoes , director of the Center for Global studies atBonn University told Xinhua, "it would be not easy to reachagreements at the Hamburg Summit".
So it needs a more powerful G20, according to Dennis J. Snower,President of Kiel Institute for the World Economy, also co-chairmanof T20.
He was echoed by Messner, "G20 is even more important jordan 13 wheat , and weneed to rebuild it".
G20 represents 80 percent global GDP, 80 percent of global tradeand 80 percent of global resources and consumption, "If G20 can'tsolve our global problems, no one else can solve it " Messner said,"They are responsible."
Snower added that the global economy is "basically andcompletely integrated", so the problems generated are alsointerdependent Mens Air Jordan 13 Retro Wheat Golden Harvest 414571-705 For Sale , such as climate change, financial crisis, cybersecurity and terrorism.
"These problems cross national boundaries and can only be solvedmultilaterally," Snower said.
According to Messner, as the United States' global influence isweakening in many aspects, the importance of the European Union aswell as the importance of China rises automatically.
John J. Kirton New Jordan Releases 2017 , co-director of G20 Research Group at Universityof Toronto, also thought China is emerging as a leader in thecompliance of G20 Summits outcomes and pushing forward G20 Agenda.Enditem
BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- China has banned all ivory processing and sales businesses, said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Thursday.
China's State Forestry Administration announced on Dec. 31, 2017 the suspension of commercial processing and sales of ivory domestically. By far China has ended business activities of all its 34 processing and 143 sales enterprises, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said at a regular press briefing.
"China's moves have been applauded by many African countries Air Jordan 13 Retro For Sale , as these measures can help cut off the chain of ivory trade from its source, protect African elephant species and African and global ecosystem, as well as close the world's main ivory trade market," Lu said.
As a signatory of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, China has always fulfilled its obligations, and has made new contributions to wildlife protection in Africa by the overall ban of ivory trade Air Jordan 13 For Sale , said the spokesperson.
"We are ready to work with African countries and the international community to further combat poaching and illegal trade of wildlife," Lu said.
At the 2015 Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China made explicit commitment to support wildlife protection in Africa and to jointly fight wildlife trafficking and poaching with African countries.
The Chinese government has suspended imports of ivory and all ivory products since 2015.
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