The climate negotiation between China and the United States is moving in the right direction, and both parties have a lot of areas in agreement, said Jonathan Pershing, the US deputy special envoy for climate change, at the first news briefing of the US delegation in the ongoing United Nations’ climate change conference in Cancun.
China and the United States should cooperate with each other to fulfill their roles in slowing down global warming while pushing forward the upcoming climate change negotiations, which kicked off on Monday in Cancun, Mexico, a United Nations official said.
China's top climate official on Tuesday urged industrialized countries to play a major role in curbing global greenhouse gas emissions and promised that China will make serious efforts to achieve an early peak of its carbon growth.
China will play an active and constructive role at the upcoming Cancun climate conference and work toward a new global deal to reduce carbon emissions next year in South Africa, said Huang Huikang, the country's special climate envoy.
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The fourth round of UN climate talks this year, which was concluded in Tianjin on Saturday, has produced some "concrete" results, said UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.
China expects the "clarified, detailed and feasible" arrangement of the $30 billion fast-start climate fund to be finalized at the year-end Cancun summit, Su Wei, the country's chief climate negotiator, said on Tuesday.