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Climate Change and the Big Four: India, China, the European Union, and the United States / William J. Antholis, PlanetPolicy, Brookings Institution, 22/07/2014http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/planetpolicy/posts/2014/07/22-climate-change-big-four-antholisWhen the Obama administration released its plans for using the EPA to regulate carbon emissions, it was not just big domestic news. It was also critical to global diplomacy. The world’s largest and third largest greenhouse gas emitters – China and India – have been watching that announcement carefully. How much they commit themselves to cutting emissions will depend critically on how far the United States and the EU go in implementing their carbon reduction plans...