China, US agreed to maintain close communications on climate issues, reached consensus on many issues
MACRO POLICY & REGULATION
China, US agreed to maintain close communications on climate issues, reached consensus on many issues
MACRO POLICY & REGULATION

China, US agreed to maintain close communications on climate issues, reached consensus on many issues

 

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China and the US agreed to maintain close communications after the two countries’ climate envoys met in Beijing, China’s environment ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and his US counterpart John Kerry, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday for three days of talks, discussed policy measures and progress on actions both countries have taken to address climate change, the ministry said.

The meetings were aimed at rebuilding trust between the two sides after climate diplomacy between the world’s two biggest carbon dioxide emitters was suspended in August last year following the visit of House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.

Kerry said the two sides had reached a consensus on many issues, including the need to abate methane, transition from coal and keep temperature rises within 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels. “I’m very comfortable we came out at a place where we had China ready and willing to work in an aggressive way – providing someone else or something else doesn’t screw it up,” he said.