U.S. and China pledge to work closely together on climate change this decade, in a rare and unexpected joint statement during the final days of the U.N. summit in Scotland.
The world's two biggest economies declared their intention"to work individually, jointly, and with other countries during this decisive decade, in accordance with different national circumstances, to strengthen and accelerate climate action and cooperation," the statement read.
The joint statement, which was otherwise light on details, mostly affirmed earlier goals, such as ending overseas coal financing and preserving the 2015 Paris agreement's target of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. China was facing major political blowback for largely shrugging off the COP26 summit in Scotland, which scientists have called the last, best chance to avert the worst of global warming. President Joe Biden, in his closing news conference during a two-day stop at the summit, said Xi's decision to skip the conference was"a big mistake."
"The door is not shut at this point in time," Kerry said of cooperation with China."And I really think what's critical is to be summoning everybody's willpower to step further, to do more than they thought was possible."
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