Mr Kerry’s trip will mark the first climate discussions between the United States and China since August. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – Mr John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s special envoy for climate change, said on Thursday that he would travel to China next week to restart global warming negotiations between the world’s two largest polluters.
“We need genuine cooperation,” Mr Kerry said in an interview. “China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world, and we’re also the two largest emitters. It’s clear that we have a special responsibility to find common ground.”It follows visits by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen aimed at stabilizing the uneasy relationship between the US and China.
Yet there are deep divisions over the speed at which each country should stop the fossil fuel emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. China’s emissions continue to grow, but Mr Xi Jinping, China’s president, has said it will peak its carbon pollution by 2030 and then stop adding it to the atmosphere altogether by 2060.approved more new coal power plants last yearBut scientists warn that industrialised nations must make a sharp turn away from fossil fuels now to avert the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.
“We’re really looking for some specific actions that are going to move the ball here,” Mr Kerry said. “If we can’t get China to work with us very aggressively to deal with this challenge, we all have a bigger problem.” The men have worked together on some of the defining international policy breakthroughs of the last decade, including the 2015 Paris Agreement, in which nearly every nation pledged to reduce emissions to constrain average global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 deg C from pre-industrial levels.
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