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Emily Macinnes\/Bloomberg

China’s climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua. Surprise U.S.-China climate deal breaks through superpower standoff

-Surprise U.S.-China climate deal breaks through superpower standoff.
-It was a bilateral deal between the two countries that pave the way for the Paris Agreement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jennifer Dlouhy, Karoline Kan and Jess Shankleman \/ Bloomberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON\/GLASGOW\/LONDON
Petroleumworld 11 11 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China and the U.S. vowed to work together to slow global warming, issuing a surprise joint statement Wednesday that injects new momentum into the last days of global climate negotiations. The deal also marks a rare moment of cooperation between superpowers locked in geopolitical rivalry and who seemed at odds for most of the two-week talks in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two sides agreed to boost their efforts to cut emissions, including by tackling methane and illegal deforestation, China\u2019s special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua told reporters. They will establish a working group to increase action in the 2020s \u2014 a key decade \u2014 which will meet in the first half of next year. His U.S. counterpart John Kerry said that the group will focus on \u201cconcrete\u201d measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world\u2019s two major economies, \u201cwe need to work actively to address climate change,\u201d Xie said. Kerry said that \u00abthe U.S. and China have no shortage of differences, but on climate cooperation is the only way to get this job done.\u00bb The two spoke at separate press conferences, one after the other, with Xie going first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement changed the mood in Glasgow, where negotiators are in the midst of fraught discussions over how to accelerate measures to curb the rise in global temperatures. It was a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and China that paved the way for the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abThe big significance of this is geopolitical,\u201d said Nick Mabey, co-founder of think tank E3G. \u201cThe U.S. and China have signaled they will end the wars of words that marred the past days.\u201d

Relations between the world\u2019s two biggest economies have steadily improved since Chinese officials told Kerry in September that progress on climate depended on improved overall ties, prompting President Joe Biden to call counterpart Xi Jinping in search of a breakthrough. Shortly afterward, the U.S. reached a deal to release Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou from extradition proceedings in Canada — one of Beijing\u2019s top demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joint agreement on climate comes ahead of another virtual summit likely to be held next week between Biden and Xi, who skipped an in-person appearance at COP26. Xi wrote in a letter this week to the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations that China is ready to deepen ties with the U.S. and better manage their disputes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That meeting is likely to address tensions over everything from tech to trade, human rights and the status of Taiwan. Both leaders have an incentive to put the relationship on a more even footing as they each focus on challenges at home, and climate matters is a key area they can cooperate on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

`Major Tasks\u2019
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The climate agreement \u201cshows once again that China and the U.S. can cooperate on major international issues,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular briefing in Beijing on Thursday. \u201cAnd with cooperation, the two sides can do a lot of major tasks that are beneficial to countries and people of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, separately said Thursday that the U.S. and China could avoid a Cold War or the Thucydides trap, named after the Greek historian who warned of war when an emerging power challenges a mature one.

\u201cWe have the choice instead to move forward with what President Biden has called stiff competition where we are going to compete vigorously across multiple dimensions,\u201d Sullivan said in a virtual lecture hosted by the Lowy Institute in Sydney. \u201cThere is no reason that that competition has to turn into conflict or confrontation, and that is what responsibly and collectively we need to manage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Methane Emissions<\/strong>

The two countries reaffirmed the temperature goals of the Paris accord, which has a stretch target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and recognized there is a gap between current policies and what needs to be done, Xie said. Both are committed to pushing for a successful COP26, including agreements on climate finance and rules to create a global carbon market, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, China declined to join the global pledge being pushed by the U.S. and the European Union to cut methane emissions 30% by the end of the decade from 2020 levels. Xie said China will develop its own national plan. Kerry admitted that he had failed to get China to move its deadline for reaching peak emissions earlier from 2030. \u201cWe’ve peaked out on peaking,\u201d he said.

As the world\u2019s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, China can do more than any other country right now to help the world avoid the worst effects of global warming. But it argues that its plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2060 will already be the most ambitious emissions reduction ever attempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt can only be good news that the U.S. and China are working closely on climate change and slashing methane emissions,\u201d said Bernice Lee, research director at Chatham House. \u201cBut the statement is not enough to close the deal. The real test of Washington and Beijing is how hard they push for a 1.5\u00b0C-aligned deal here in Glasgow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 With assistance by Akshat Rathi, Philip Heijmans, and Colum Murphy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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