Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded that the G20 Joint Meeting of Ministers of Environment and Climate was unable to form a communiqu é providing | policies | promotion | environment | climate | addressing climate change | China | global
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered questions from reporters regarding the Joint Meeting of Environment and Climate Ministers of the G20.
Q: According to reports, the Joint Meeting of Environment and Climate Ministers of the G20 recently concluded in Chennai, India. Some Western media cited individual views that China's position hinders the meeting from reaching consensus on key issues such as emissions reduction, cessation of fossil fuel use, and improvement of renewable energy utilization. What is your comment on this?
Answer: The opinions on the report are completely inconsistent with those of colleagues. On July 28th, the Joint Meeting of Environment and Climate Ministers of the G20 formed a consensus document and Chairman's summary, achieving positive and balanced results. However, due to the unjustified introduction of geopolitical issues by some countries, the meeting was unable to form a communiqu é, which China regrets.
China believes that as the main forum for international economic cooperation, the G20 has an important responsibility in promoting global sustainable development, coordinating economic development with environmental protection, and addressing climate change. The G20 should strive to gather political consensus among countries, fully respect their different development stages and national conditions, exchange and share best practices and lessons learned, encourage countries to strengthen practical actions, promote international solidarity and cooperation to actively respond to climate change, and jointly enhance the confidence and ability of the world to achieve green, low-carbon and sustainable development. On the basis of fully respecting and adhering to the goals, principles, and framework established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, the G20 should provide useful supplements to the main channel negotiations of the United Nations on climate change, ensure that there is no new North South gap in addressing climate change, and achieve a fair, green, and low-carbon global transition. China urges developed countries to face up to their own capabilities, responsibilities, and obligations in addressing climate change, further increase their efforts to reduce emissions, fulfill their commitments as soon as possible, provide climate funds and technology transfer to developing countries, and stop unilateral measures, decoupling, and trade barriers that affect and undermine the global response to climate change.
China is an action force in promoting global climate governance, establishing a "1+N" policy system to implement the dual carbon commitment, building the world's largest clean power generation network, contributing 25% of the world's newly added green area since the beginning of this century, and supporting an average annual economic growth rate of 6.2% with an average annual energy consumption growth rate of 3%. It has become one of the countries with the fastest reduction in energy intensity in the world and the country with the highest installed capacity of hydropower, wind power, and solar power generation.
At the same time, China has done its best to provide support and assistance to other developing countries, signed 43 South South cooperation agreements with 38 developing countries to address climate change, trained about 2000 officials and technical personnel in the field of climate change for more than 120 developing countries, and made positive contributions to building a fair, reasonable, and win-win global climate governance system.
In the consultations on the outcome document of the G20 Ministerial Conference on Environment and Climate, China played the role of the President of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, striving to coordinate the interests of all parties, promote a balanced text, convey the Chinese concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and putting people at the center. China also called for green economic policies not to cause unfair discrimination or restrictions on international trade.
China will continue to strengthen policy exchanges and practical cooperation on environmental and climate with other countries under the G20 and other frameworks, and jointly promote global green, low-carbon and sustainable development.