U.S. special climate envoy John F. Kerry praised China’s “incredible job” expanding renewable energy sources Monday, while urging the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter to stop building coal-fired power plants.
Climate is an area where the two countries have a shared interest.
“In the next three days, we hope we can begin taking some big steps that will send a signal to the world about the serious purpose of China and the United States to address a common risk, threat, challenge to all of humanity created by humans themselves,” Kerry said ahead of a four-hour meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, on Monday.
In that time, the U.S. approach to dealing with China to address climate change has evolved. As well as searching for opportunities to work together on issues like cutting emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, the Biden administration is alsoIn a bid to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach “carbon neutrality” by 2060, China has vastly expanded its use of solar and wind power.
At the current pace of installation, the country is on track to reach 1,200 gigawatts of renewable power capacity, a goal set for 2030, five years ahead of schedule, Global Energy Monitor, a San Francisco-based environmental nonprofit group,These plans make China far and away the global leader. Its planned solar panel additions by 2025, for example, are three times what the United States has installed.
But China is also a global outlier in its slow progress to phase out coal, a leading cause of carbon dioxide emissions and
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