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Ambassador Xie Feng: Ultimately, the vision of China-U.S. climate cooperation needs to be translated into real action at the subnational level_Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America

On May 29, 2024, the China-U.S. High-level Event on Subnational Climate Action was held in California. Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng was invited to deliver remarks.

Ambassador Xie said that as President Xi Jinping pointed out, the vitality of China-U.S. relations comes from exchanges at subnational levels. Ultimately, the vision of China-U.S. climate cooperation needs to be translated into real action at the subnational level, which requires the participation of enterprises, think tanks and social organizations from both countries. The China-U.S. High-level Event on Subnational Climate Action is therefore highly relevant. We hope delegates from both countries will enhance policy dialogue, information exchange, practice sharing and project collaboration, put our climate cooperation on a more pragmatic, concrete and institutional footing, and inject more impetus into it. We also call on people with vision in both countries to speak out against any attempt to erect green trade barriers and politicize and weaponize climate issues. Ambassador Xie called for jointly taking concrete actions to boost global renewable energy development and green transition, and leave to our future generations a clean and beautiful world.

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The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21). 

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