The US and China are “committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries to tackle the climate crisis, which must be treated with the seriousness and urgency it requires”: the two countries affirmed in a joint note at the end of the visit. by ‘US ambassador against climate change’ John Kerry in Shanghai.
Thus Kerry starts the American “climate revolution”
by Mario Platero
Barack Obama’s former secretary of state paid the first visit to China by a senior official in the Biden administration in Shanghai. This trip was intended to prepare the virtual climate summit organized next week on the initiative of the US. Beijing and Washington have chosen to temporarily put aside their many duties in foreign policy and economics.
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“China attaches great importance to dialogue and cooperation with the United States on climate change,” Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng told the US envoy on Friday, according to the New China News Agency. “We welcome the return of the United States to the Paris Agreement, we expect them to safeguard this agreement, assume their responsibilities and make the necessary contributions,” Han said from Beijing during a video conference with Kerry.
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by our correspondent Federico Rampini
Since his first day in the White House on January 20, Joe Biden had recorded the U.S. return to the Paris climate deal, which Donald Trump had left nearly four years earlier.
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