During the summit, Mrs May will hold her first face-to-face talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and is expected to adopt an approach of “hard-headed engagement” with Moscow.
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China along with 195 other countries signed the Paris Agreement at UN Headquarters in NY on April 22, Earth Day, sending a strong messaging to the worldwide community as it joins forces against global warming.
“China is angry with nearly everyone at the moment”, said a second Beijing-based Western diplomat familiar with the summit.
But Obama said they also would have a candid discussion about differences, including on human rights, cybersecurity and maritime issues.
Xi said China’s new mechanisms and initiatives were “not meant to reinvent the wheels or target any other country”, but to improve the current global mechanisms to achieve common development. Obama is expected to meet with China’s President Xi Jinping Saturday afternoon.
The letter is a plea to the G20 leaders to address climate change as they meet in Hangzhou, China this week to discuss ways to strengthen the global economy.
The Australian government said Wednesday it would seek to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change by the end of the year.
It will come into force only after it is ratified by at least 55 countries, which produce between them at least 55 per cent of global carbon emissions.
Obama says there was “no shortage” of cynics who doubted an agreement would ever be reached.
The global economy is not working for too many people, Trudeau said, fuelling anger among voters left behind by decades of unequal growth and “taking us in the wrong direction in many places in the world”.
Many more countries must formally join the agreement for it to take effect.
Entering the climate agreement has been an intricate exercise in diplomatic choreography.
After “depositing” their “instruments of acceptance” with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon – handing over leather folders with signed documents tucked inside – Xi and Obama committed to working together to combat climate change. That means China and the US, which produce almost 40 percent the world’s greenhouse gases, are now officially part of the agreement negotiated by 195 nations in Paris a year ago.
The Group of 20, a collection of industrial and emerging-market nations, is responsible for about 80 percent of global carbon emissions.
Without China or the USA on board, the agreement would essentially be meaningless.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Saturday to deepen counter-terror cooperation, as the two set aside previous disagreements over China’s treatment of a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority. The agreement is a first of its kind and requires all countries to take steps to reduce greenhouse gases.
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“[China and the U.S.] now need to scale and speed up their efforts in charting a future that avoids the worst impacts of climate change”, Executive Director of Greenpeace International Jennifer Morgan said.
