BEIJING: China has earned praises from the United States and Britain on Wednesday when the first vowed to end funding for coal projects overseas, but voiced hope the world's largest emitter would also do more at home on climate change.

President Xi Jinping told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that China will stop backing coal overseas, all but drying up the world's foreign assistance to the dirty form of energy in developing countries after similar announcements by South Korea and Japan.

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