{"id":268669,"date":"2023-07-21T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268669"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:47:31","slug":"kerry-returns-from-china-without-a-climate-deal-or-even-a-meeting-with-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268669","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Returns from China without a Climate Deal, or Even a Meeting with Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Kerry & Xi Jinping.\u00a0U.S. Department of State from United States<\/a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First published\u00a0JoNova<\/a>; Kerry on fire: Talks were very productive, but didn\u2019t produce a single breakthrough, and Xi ignored Kerry\u2019s desire for a meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the world sizzles, China says it will deal with climate its own way<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0<\/em>Christian Shepherd<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Emily Rauhala<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Chris Mooney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updated\u00a0July 19, 2023 at 12:26 p.m. EDT | Published\u00a0July 19, 2023 at 7:07 a.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As parts of the Northern Hemisphere reach heat close to\u00a0<\/em>the limits of human survival<\/a>, Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared in remarks reported Wednesday that Beijing alone will decide how \u2014 and how quickly \u2014 it addresses climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xi\u2019s comments to top Communist Party officials, which came as U.S. climate envoy John F. Kerry wrapped up three days of talks with his Chinese counterpart, laid bare the challenge the world faces in curbing planet-warming pollution that is fueling heat waves across three continents. China has surpassed the United States\u00a0<\/em>as the world\u2019s largest greenhouse gas emitter<\/a>, and approved the construction of dozens of coal plants last year even as it added more renewable power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China would pursue its commitments \u201cunswervingly,\u201d but the pace of such efforts \u201cshould and must be\u201d determined without outside interference, Xi said late Tuesday. Xi\u2019s approach marked a break from the 2015 Paris climate accord, where<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>a Chinese-U.S. agreement paved the way for the international goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to reporters in a phone call Wednesday, Kerry described his talks with Chinese officials as \u201cvery cordial, very direct, and, I think, very productive,\u201d but he acknowledged that they did not produce a significant breakthrough. The meetings marked the first time in a year that the two sides had met.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/07\/19\/climate-change-heat-wave-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What can I say? I\u2019ve worked in Taiwan, so I know a bit about Chinese culture. What Kerry received was as close as a Chinese diplomat will come to telling you to \u201cget lost\u201d while remaining civil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Breitbart;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xi Jinping Holds Climate Summit as John Kerry Visits China \u2013 Without Meeting with Him<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JOHN HAYWARD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19 Jul 202336<\/p>\nChinese dictator Xi Jinping humiliated \u201cclimate envoy\u201d John Kerry<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0this week by holding a two-day \u201cnational conference on ecological and environmental protection\u201d in Beijing without his American guest.\u00a0<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Xi<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>fairly explicitly<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>told Kerry to get lost<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in his remarks at the conference, declaring that China\u00a0\u2014 the world\u2019s worst polluter by a very wide margin\u00a0\u2014 would set its own environmental \u201cgoals\u201d and chart its own \u201cpath\u201d to reaching them. Kerry limped out of Beijing empty-handed,\u00a0<\/em>mumbling<\/a>\u00a0about the \u201clong and detailed meetings\u201d he attended and \u201cfrank conversations\u201d he held, but with no climate agreement in hand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xi\u2019s two-day ecological conference was essentially a very long restatement of the evasion China has used on the climate change movement with great success thus far, vaguely promising that the heavily industrialized authoritarian regime will reduce its carbon emissions thirty years from now but, for the time being, it will burn as much coal as it pleases and no input from Western environmentalists is welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChina\u2019s commitments are unswerving, but the path towards the goals as well as the manner, pace and intensity of efforts to achieve them should and must be determined by the country itself, rather than swayed by others,\u201d Xi declared at the conference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/environment\/2023\/07\/19\/xi-jinping-holds-climate-summit-john-kerry-visits-china-without-meeting-him\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m guessing China loves these excruciating diplomatic failures. China gets to play Middle Kingdom, with Kerry or Yellen<\/a> or whoever playing the role of the unworthy supplicant begging for attention at the court of the Emperor, and in doing so heaps endless humiliation on the USA. Yet the feckless Biden Administration keeps falling for it, over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more on Climate Politics, go to our ClimateTV page and select Climate Politics in the topics filter.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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