Analysis: A global sigh of relief as China and the US sit down to talk climate | Nick O'Malley
With negotiations snarled and tempers fraying at climate talks in Egypt, many at the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference spent the day waiting for news from Bali, where presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden were due to meet.
As Alden Meyer, a senior associate at the global climate think tank E3G and a long-time veteran of high-end climate diplomacy put it on Sunday night, things happen in climate when the US and China say they will.The entire Paris process can be traced back to secret diplomacy between the two nations’ climate envoys, John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua.
“By working together, our two countries can achieve many important things that are beneficial, not only to our two countries, but to the world as a whole. As two major powers in the world, China and the US shoulder special international responsibilities and obligations.”By quarantining climate from their broader competition, it began to look as though China and the US had found not only an effective way to battle warming, but a valve to release tension between them as it grew over other issues.
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