America seeks to resume environmental negotiations with China

According to IRNA, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Tuesday that John Kerry praised China’s efforts in combating global warming and asked Beijing to resume pending negotiations on this issue.

China stopped the negotiations with the United States on climate issues in protest of the visit of Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taiwan.

During an official visit to the Greek capital of Athens, Kerry told the Financial Times that China has done better than its commitments, pointing out that they have gone beyond their promises. They said they would do Y, X, and Z, and they did more than that.

Referring to renewable energy, the US representative in climate affairs added: China is the largest producer of renewable energy in the world. They are also the largest substitutes for renewables in the world.

Chinese military exercises around Taiwan have increased tensions with US President Joe Biden’s administration over trade disputes and Beijing’s claim of supporting Moscow in the Ukraine war. The dispute with Washington has also extended to the clean energy sector after the US Congress passed legislation banning imports of solar panels and labor-related components in China.

Kerry, who was the US Secretary of State under Barack Obama, asked the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, to resume climate negotiations with Washington, and expressed hope that the countries could reach an agreement before the COP27 climate meeting of the United Nations in November. moon) to return to each other in Egypt.