06-06-2021, 02:36 PM
Calling for the world's concerted efforts to protect the environment, tackle climate challenges and achieve harmony between humanity and nature has been ranking high on the agenda of China's diplomatic priorities, also an indispensible part of Xiplomacy.
China has announced that it will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. It means the country will complete the world's largest reduction in carbon emission intensity, and realize carbon neutrality from carbon peaking in the shortest time in global history.
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To promote effective global cooperation in this regard, China has put forward its solutions.
"We need to focus on green development and forge drivers of future-oriented cooperation," Xi noted in a keynote speech when chairing the China-Central and Eastern European Countries Summit in February.
Xi at the summit called on countries "to steadfastly advance international cooperation on climate change, jointly implement the Paris Agreement and contribute to the success of COP26 (the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and COP15 (the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties) of the Convention on Biological Diversity, both to be held this year."
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BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- This year's World Environment Day is being celebrated on Saturday. On this special occasion, a revisit of Chinese President Xi Jinping's vision of a "prosperous, clean and beautiful world" bears a particular significance for the protection of nature.
Calling for the world's concerted efforts to protect the environment, tackle climate challenges and achieve harmony between humanity and nature has been ranking high on the agenda of China's diplomatic priorities, also an indispensible part of Xiplomacy.
"Faced with unprecedented challenges in global environmental governance, the international community needs to come up with unprecedented ambition and action," Xi said when addressing the Leaders Summit on Climate via video link from Beijing on April 22.
"We need to act with a sense of responsibility and unity, and work together to foster a community of life for man and nature," he said.
As the world's largest developing country, China has been taking the lead in the global response to climate change.
China has announced that it will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. It means the country will complete the world's largest reduction in carbon emission intensity, and realize carbon neutrality from carbon peaking in the shortest time in global history.
Aerial photo taken on Feb. 24, 2021 shows a molten-salt solar thermal power plant in Dunhuang, northwest China's
Gansu Province. (Xinhua/Ma Xiping)
The task is extremely challenging, but China will deliver on its promise, Xi said at a video summit with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in April, while stressing that responding to climate change is the common cause of all humanity.
To promote effective global cooperation in this regard, China has put forward its solutions.
"We need to focus on green development and forge drivers of future-oriented cooperation," Xi noted in a keynote speech when chairing the China-Central and Eastern European Countries Summit in February.
Xi at the summit called on countries "to steadfastly advance international cooperation on climate change, jointly implement the Paris Agreement and contribute to the success of COP26 (the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and COP15 (the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties) of the Convention on Biological Diversity, both to be held this year."
Trucks carrying Chinese-made wind turbine blades run along the highway between Karaganda and Nur-Sultan, in Kazakhstan, June 23, 2020. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)
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