On May 8–9, the United States hosted a meeting of the US-China Working Group on Scaling Up Climate Action in the 2020s in Washington, DC, co-led by John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy. and Liu Zhenmin, the PRC’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, and includes relevant officials from both countries.
The in-depth discussion recalled the San Francisco summit between the two presidents and focused on areas identified in the Sunnylands Statement, including the energy transition, methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases, circular economy and resource efficiency, deforestation And contain less carbon. To cooperate on multilateral issues related to promoting a successful COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, along with sustainable provinces/states and cities. They exchanged experiences and challenges regarding their respective climate policies and actions with the aim of providing meaningful responses to the climate crisis and beyond.
Recalling the temperature target of the Paris Agreement and reaffirming the importance of demonstrating its leadership, taking into account different national circumstances and pathways, both sides called on Parties to COP 28’s Global Stocktake Decision to set national goals by 2035. The call for timely submission of Contribution (“NDC”) was welcomed. ) which are economy-wide, cover all greenhouse gases, and are 1.5C-aligned; They expressed their intention to engage in further related technical and policy exchanges.
Recalls the US intention to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2035 and China’s intention to make best efforts to accelerate this work, including phasing out coal consumption and accelerating renewable energy deployment during the 15th Five-Year Plan; Both countries intend to accelerate technological advances. and policy exchanges on realizing their respective goals.
Both sides intend to host the second “Methane and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Summit” at COP 29. Both sides are committed to promoting bilateral cooperation and building capacity on deploying reduction technologies as well as on the development and/or improvement of related MRV systems. And the standards aim to achieve significant methane emissions controls and reductions in 2020. Both sides expressed interest in the Methane Warning and Response System of the UNEP International Methane Emissions Observatory. They will also engage in technical cooperation and capacity building for measurement and reduction solutions of industrial N2O as well as other non-CO2 greenhouse gases, including tropospheric ozone precursors.
Recognizing the importance of developing the circular economy and resource efficiency in tackling the climate crisis, both sides look forward to further technical exchanges on the circular economy, including food loss and waste reduction, textile and recycling standards.
Both sides look forward to the US-China High-level Event on Subnational Climate Action to be held in Berkeley, CA on May 29-30.
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