The United States and China committed to increasing cooperation in combating the climate crisis and reducing greenhouse gases, an announcement that comes just hours before the expected meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.
In a joint statement, the two powers recognize that they play a “big role” in the global response to the climate crisis and commit to collaborating to “confront one of the greatest challenges of our time for the present and future generations of humanity”.
In addition, they announced the creation of a working group to reach concrete commitments in what they call the “critical decade” of 2020.
Likewise, they reiterated their commitment to a declaration by the G20, of which China and the United States are members, to triple the level of renewable energy production globally by 2030 and accelerate the implementation of this type of technologies in their respective economies in the next decade.
The announcement by China and the United States, the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, already imbues with a positive tone the face to face between Biden and Xi this Wednesday, one day before the start of the summit of leaders of the 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC), which will conclude on Friday.
In addition, it comes ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, which will be held in Dubai from November 30 to December 12.
The climate crisis has been an area where China and the United States have found points of collaboration in recent years. The collaboration between Xi and then-US President Barack Obama (2009-2017) allowed the Paris Agreement to be signed in 2016.
Obama’s successor, Donald Trump (2017-2021), pulled the United States out of that agreement in 2017, but Biden, who was Obama’s vice president, put the North American power back into that framework of collaboration that seeks to limit global warming. at 1.5 degrees Celsius (with the limit at 2 °C) above pre-industrial levels.
Source: Gestion
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