China and the US have failed to reach a climate agreement after Biden's climate envoy John Kerry pushed Beijing to make more public pledges before a UN climate summit in November.
"China already has its own plans and road map for achieving its climate goals," an official on the Chinese side was cited in South China Morning Post as saying.
During talks with Chinese leaders in Tianjin, US climate envoy John Kerry presented a list of proposals for Beijing to accelerate its climate efforts.
So there will be no 'climate agreement' between the US and China despite Kerry's efforts in Tianjin, also as it increasingly appears broader tensions such as on trade or human rights are being linked to climate negotiations.
Wang informed Biden's US climate envoy John Kerry during the latter's visit to the Chinese city of Tianjin on Thursday that "Climate cooperation cannot be separated from the wider environment" of US-China relations.
It's widely perceived that if one side or the other links climate with the broader tensions besetting US-China relations, it would greatly slow any substantive climate action.
"Chinese leaders have long said they are engaged in climate action not because of outside pressure, but because it benefits China and the world at large," said Alex Wang, a climate expert and professor at UCLA. And additionally Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission called on the US to "Correct its wrongdoings" and make efforts to "Bring bilateral ties back on the right track."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/china-warns-spiraling-ties-us-will-imperil-climate-cooperation
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