Xi Jinping assured that the Chinese economy is already “in a green transition.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping today asked the G20 member countries meeting in Rome to be “an example” in reducing carbon emissions, a field in which they should adapt to the “difficulties” faced by the nations on the way. development, to which they should provide “technology and financing.”
Xi stressed the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” on the climate issue shortly before the UN climate summit (COP26) is held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and assured that the Chinese economy is already “in transition green”
Xi, who has not left China since the beginning of the pandemic, appeared by videoconference before the representatives of the G20 countries.
The Chinese president repeated what he said in the virtual meeting of the G20 held in November 2020, when he stated that the Asian country “will strive to reach the peak of CO2 emissions before 2030 to reach net zero emissions before 2060.”
In the health section, the Chinese president, like his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, asked the G20 in his speech for “mutual recognition” of the vaccines approved by the World Health Organization, which should have “equal treatment” to make them “more accessible to developing countries.”
According to Xi, the G20 countries should “accept their responsibilities” in the face of “changes and a pandemic unique in a century,” for which China “has already provided more than 1.6 billion doses of vaccines to more than 100 countries and international organizations. “, he assured.
In the economic field, Xi called for efforts to ensure “normal functioning” of the international financial and economic system and greater “coordination of macroeconomic policies” between economic powers to avoid “damage” to developing countries.
In a context of uncertainty in the world economy, Xi proposed to the G20 leaders to hold an “international forum focused on the stability of industrial and supply chains,” which have been affected globally since the beginning of the pandemic. (I)
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