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COP26: Chinese climate adviser rates Glasgow summit a success, saying it ‘achieved good progress’
- Going into the talks, China sought a ‘powerful, balanced and inclusive result’, green energy workshop told
- ‘US-China joint declaration provides new impetus for COP26 and it leaves room for future cooperation’
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The COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference was the most successful climate summit since the 2015 Paris Climate Conference and reached a maximum consensus among nations, according to a senior adviser to the Chinese COP26 delegation.
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“Especially, it completed the negotiations on the Paris Rulebook and achieved good progress,” said Wang Yi, a climate specialist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, referring to the guidelines for how countries should implement the Paris Agreement.
Wang said that before COP26 the Chinese delegation had hoped it would help wrap up negotiations over operational details of the Paris Agreement. He said that in addition to focusing on action and reaching the climate targets, China sought to express the concerns of developing countries, including on finance, adaptation and building capacity for practical climate action and policymaking.
“We hoped the summit could achieve a powerful, balanced and inclusive result,” he said. “In general, it was a successful conference.”
Wang was speaking via video link at the 2021 Green Energy Transition International Workshop hosted by the Natural Resources Defence Council’s Beijing office on Wednesday.
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