John Kerry promises that America will “impose nothing on anybody.”
Xi Jinping has promised that Beijing will take its “own decisions” to tackle global warming, while climate envoy John Kerry is currently in China.
John Kerry during his visit to China on July 18, 2023.
AFP
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry assured Wednesday that the U.S. is not imposing any climate solution on China after Xi Jinping said Beijing would make its own decisions about how to respond to global warming.
John Kerry said on Wednesday that he and his team had “very warm and productive meetings” with senior Chinese officials to resume Sino-US dialogue on climate issues in China from Sunday. Xi Jinping expressed.
The Chinese president gave a speech on the environment while John Kerry was in Beijing. “We have to make our own decisions about the path, methods, speed and intensity of implementing them. Nobody should expect to be able to exert any influence on us,” he said, according to Chinese agency Xinhua.
“We Follow Science”
Xinhua said Xi Jinping did not directly mention the United States or John Kerry, who was absent during the speech. Asked about this in a phone call with reporters, the US diplomat replied: “We are not imposing anything on anybody. We follow science. “There is no politics or ideology in what we do,” he added.
The Washington envoy met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Premier Li Qiang and his representative on climate issues, Xie Zhenhua. “None of the leaders I’ve met has suggested there’s any reason why we shouldn’t coordinate the way we do things with mutual respect.”
After a long hiatus in discussions between the two powers on climate, John Kerry explained that many subjects were raised in China. These were interrupted last year after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan angered Beijing.
“New Ways”
According to the US Ambassador, the two sides were best focused on ensuring the success of the COP 28 scheduled for the end of 2023 in Dubai and promoting the goals proposed in 2025. John Kerry said. “Mutual concern” about the climate situation from the world’s two biggest polluters, while acknowledging that talks, while “transparent”, have not led to progress.
US representatives “realized it would take a little more work to break new ground”. The Americans and Chinese have agreed to focus on integrating renewable energy into the energy sector to reduce coal-related emissions and to work on emissions of greenhouse gases other than CO2, such as methane.
According to John Kerry, the two parties will work “intensely” on these and other issues in the coming weeks before meeting again in a few weeks.
AFP
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