China is committed to carbon neutrality, says envoy to COP27

China’s special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said on Tuesday that Beijing was committed to achieving carbon neutrality.

According to Zhenhua, multilateralism and cooperation are key to solving global climate change.

“No matter how much the external environment changes, and no matter how many challenges we face, China has a firm determination to achieve this vision of carbon neutrality,” he told delegates at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.

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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday that they faced a difficult choice: working together now to reduce emissions. or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe.

The speech was intended to set an urgent tone as governments gather for two weeks of talks on how to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, even as they are distracted by Russia’s war in Ukraine, rampant consumer inflation and a shortage of food. energy.

“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish,” Guterres told delegates gathered in the coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Leaders of countries from Britain to Saudi Arabia are expected to speak later in the day.

Guterres called for a pact between the world’s richest and poorest countries to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels and the delivery of the necessary funding to ensure that the poorest countries can reduce emissions and deal with the inevitable impacts of the warming that has already occurred. occurred.

(From Valerie Volcovici of Reuters)

Source: CNN Brasil

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