China and US to fight climate change together
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China and the United States yesterday announced they were joining forces to work together in trying to combat climate change.
In a joint statement announced as US Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a two-day visit to Beijing, both countries said they would work together “to collaborate through enhanced policy dialogue, including the sharing of information regarding their respective post-2020 plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions.”
The two sides have also reached an agreement on implementing five initiatives launched under a joint climate change working group, the statement said.
Those initiatives include emission reductions from heavy duty and other vehicles; smart grids; carbon capture utilisation and storage; collecting and managing greenhouse gas emissions data; and energy efficiency in buildings and industry.
China’s cities are often hit by heavy pollution, blamed on coal-burning by power stations and industry, as well as vehicle use.
Authorities have become more open about pollution levels, in part as a response to public pressure, but officials have implied that it will take years before the situation improves.
After touring a factory which is a joint US-Sino venture making clean diesel engines, Kerry said the two countries were to try to pool their efforts.
“The leaders of China have agreed to join us,” he told workers at the Cummins-Foton factory, which is set to go into production in April.
“China and the United States will put an extra effort into exchanging information and discussing policies that will help both of us to be able to develop and lead on the standards that need to be announced next year for the global climate change agreement,” Kerry said.
“This is a unique cooperative effort” between the two countries, he said, adding he hoped it would set “the standard for global seriousness” to fight climate change.
Indiana-based Cummins has joined with China’s Foton to build the US$350 million dollar plant on the edge of Beijing, which will initially produce 60,000 clean engines a year.
With the second phase next year, it is set to double production of the engines, which will meet new emissions standards to be adopted soon by Beijing.
In their joint s tatement, both sides said that they recognize the need for action “in light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its worsening impacts, and the related issue of air pollution from burning fossil fuels.”
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