China's top climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua said on Saturday he expects to continue direct cooperation on climate change with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry after the COP27 summit taking place in Egypt comes to a close.
China and the United States are the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and cooperation between them is seen as vital to international efforts to avert the worst impacts of climate change.to restart cooperation on climate change earlier this week after a months-long hiatus due to tensions over Taiwan.
Xie said he had met with Kerry at the COP27 climate summit as time allowed in the wider negotiations, according to a recording of a briefing Xie gave to a handful of journalists, reviewed by Reuters. He added that there was still much to be discussed between the two countries and results of the talks could only be announced at a later date.
The Chinese negotiator said the conversations with the United States were "candid, friendly, positive and active" and that "overall it's been very positive". Xie was not asked for his reaction to an announcement by the State Department on Friday that Kerry hadfor COVID-19 and was finishing his work at the COP27 conference in isolation and by phone.
Xie said he could not speculate about the ultimate outcome of COP27 where negotiations have spilled into the weekend. They had been due to end on Friday.He said China supports the work being done to establish a fund on "loss and damage" to help poor countries to pay for irreversible damage caused by climate change, one of the key sticking points in the talks.
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