China's Veteran Climate Chief Works With US to Clinch COP28 Deal - Bloomberg
COP 28: China’s Veteran Climate Chief Works With US to Clinch Deal - Bloomberg
China’s Veteran Climate Chief Works With US to Clinch COP28 Deal
- Xie Zhenhua points to November’s US-China climate agreement
- Issue of fossil fuel phase down biggets obstacle to COP28 pact
Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change, left, and John Kerry, US special presidential envoy for climate, at COP28. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
China’s climate envoy said his team at COP28 is in intensive talks with the US and others to find language on fossil fuels that can bring the two-week climate summit to a successful close.
Xie Zhenhua, 74, a fixture of global climate diplomacy for more than a decade, will retire after this year’s COP in Dubai and wants to end on a high. He told reporters on Saturday evening that compromise may lie in the agreement he reached with US counterpart John Kerry at the Sunnylands estate in California last month.
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Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates.
Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.
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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