COP26

US and China pledge co-operation over ‘existential’ climate crisis

Envoys Kerry and Xie produce unexpected joint declaration at COP26 summit

The US and China made a rare joint declaration to co-operate on climate change, which the Chinese special envoy to the UN COP26 summit described as an “existential crisis”.

In a high-stakes move during the final days of the summit, the Chinese and US climate envoys indicated they had found common ground on some of the thorniest issues vexing negotiators.

“We both see that the challenge of climate change is an existential and severe one,” said Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua. “In the area of climate change, there is more agreement between China and the US than there is disagreement.”

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