Experts have said they do not expect Mr Kerry’s trip to add much momentum to climate negotiations. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Given the scale of their economies, cooperation between the US and China is considered vital to international efforts to avert the worst impacts of climate change.China and the United States are the world’s two biggest sources of carbon dioxide emissions, and their cooperation has been seen as a vital part of global efforts to curb global warming.
But while Mr Kerry has sought to insulate climate from broader diplomatic tensions between the two sides, formal talks were suspended last August following the visit of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
“First and foremost, it’s just very important that it is happening,” said Associate Professor Joanna Lewis, an expert on Chinese climate policies at Georgetown University. “I think it is important that some sort of positive agenda comes out of this meeting, even if it is simply an agreement to continue to meet,” she added, during a webinar on US-China climate cooperation on Tuesday. REUTERS
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