U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday China has invited him to visit 'in the near term' for talks on averting a global climate change crisis even as diplomatic relations between the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters remain tense.
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry attends a Reuters interview at the "Petersberg Climate Conference" in Berlin, Germany May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi
U.S. President Joe Biden has authorized the meeting but the timing remains to be determined and certain issues must still be clarified, Kerry said. China, for example, first must issue its plan to reduce methane emissions and advance in the transition away from coal, Kerry added. Kerry said the United States may be able to help China on its methane strategy, a policy that Beijing was due to have announced last year but did not.with the United States on climate, security and other areas in response to a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House of Representatives then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"China has invited me to visit in the near term to be able to meet with him to be able to work on work that we've been doing for several years, which is trying to find the pathway forward to be able to cooperate in ways that are beneficial to the world. And hopefully, we'll be able to do that," Kerry said.
"It has embraced the U.N. Paris terminology, which is ... well below 2 degrees, and leaves up for grabs what that might mean," Kerry said of China. "To me, there is certainly no way that 'well below 2' is 1.9 or 1.8 or 1.7.""Some scientists would tell you we've already blown past it. Others will suggest ... we may shoot past it, but come back to it because of the technologies and other capacities we have to deploy clean energy," Kerry said.
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