Kerry Meets China Vice President After Xi Sends Climate Warning - Bloomberg
Kerry Meets China Vice President After Xi Sends Climate Warning - Bloomberg
Kerry Meets China Vice President After Xi Sends Climate Warning
- Xi said nation will decide its own path to curb emissions
- Beijing talks focused on setting clear path to COP28: Kerry
John Kerryin Beijing on July 18.Photographer: Florence Lo/Pool/Getty Images
US climate envoy John Kerry met with China’s Vice President Han Zheng on his final day of talks in Beijing, after President Xi Jinping warned the nation won’t have its path to curb emissions dictated by others.
Kerry has called for fresh cooperation between the world’s top two polluters since arriving Sunday. He’s also raised concerns China is continuing to add more coal-fired power — the largest single source of emissions— even as it breaks records for the adoption of renewable energy.
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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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