2023-07-17 07:21:43
July 17, 2023 Today at 09:21
John Kerry, the US climate envoy, is making his third visit to China since 2021 to urge Beijing to implement more ambitious climate goals.
US climate envoy John Kerry met his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua in Beijing on Mondaythus marking the resumption of dialogue on environmental issues between the two main polluters on the planet.
The dialogue on this subject had been discontinued almost a year ago: China had suspended it to protest once morest the displacement, in Taiwan, of Nancy Pelosi, then president of the House of Representatives of the United States. The atmosphere now seems to be one of the resumption of exchanges, even if Washington wants to show its firmness in this area.
The world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China has promised to reach its peak in CO2 emissions by 2030, then carbon neutrality by 2060.
John Kerry wants to call on China to “not to hide behind the assertion that it is a developing country“, to minimize its commitment once morest climate change, indicated the national security adviser to the American president, Jake Sullivan, Sunday on CNN. “Each country, including China, has the responsibility to reduce its emissions”, declared M Sullivan.
world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China has promised to reach its peak of CO2 emissions by 2030then carbon neutrality by 2060. President Xi Jinping also assured that his country would reduce its use of coal from 2026.
However, the authorities gave the green light in April to a further increase in coal-fired power generation capacity, casting doubt on whether they are meeting their climate targets.
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These last months, the visits of American officials in China are increasing to warm up diplomatic relations: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken came in June, then US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in early July.
The Biden administration believes the climate is one area where the two fiercely competing powers can cooperate.
The coming of Mr. Kerry, his third since taking office in 2021comes at a time when the impact of climate change is particularly felt on the planet, with heat waves in many parts of the world. A heat record was also recorded on Sunday in China, with a temperature of 52.2° Celsius observed in a locality in the northwest of the country, in a vast arid zone of the Xinjiang region.
The Biden administration believes the climate is one area where the two fiercely competing powers can cooperate.
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