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Closer cooperation is in the interest not only of both countries, but of the whole world, Li said Tuesday during a meeting with US climate envoy John Kerry in Beijing, according to the state news agency Xinhua. Kerry also said the United States is ready to step up cooperation with China on key global issues such as climate protection. Last weekend, he mentioned reducing climate-damaging coal combustion and emissions of the greenhouse gas methane as priorities.
China emits by far the most harmful greenhouse gases worldwide, followed by the US. In terms of emissions per capita, however, the Americans are far ahead of the Chinese. China plans to gradually reduce its emissions only from 2030 – which experts say is incompatible with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial period.
The earth has already warmed up by about 1.1 degrees. The warmest eight years on record were between 2015 and 2022.
Kerry, who has been in Beijing since Sunday for a four-day visit, was received with a high level. While meeting with China’s chief climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua on Monday, he was received first by China’s top diplomat Wang Yi and then by Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday.
Wang Yi said that the mutual exchange suffered from a lack of communication recently. However, by resuming the dialogue “an appropriate solution can be found for every problem”.
Rising tensions between rival powers prompted China to temporarily suspend climate talks with Washington last August. This was in protest of the visit of then Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
Kerry’s trip was taken as a further sign that both sides are trying to stabilize relations. Kerry is the third senior US politician to visit China in just weeks.
The US is trying to keep the climate dialogue with China separate from other matters. But Beijing sees it differently. A split in bilateral relations is unrealistic and “unacceptable” for Beijing, according to an editorial by the state news agency Xinhua on Sunday when Kerry arrived.
(SDA)
Source:Blick
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