Xie Yuan, vice president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, attended the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit “Addressing Climate Change: Telling the World Story to the World”.

BEIJING, September 14 (Zhang Wenhui) At the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit “Addressing Climate Change: Telling the World Story to the World”, Xie Yuan, Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, said that China and the United States Cooperation in the field of climate change has gradually penetrated into provinces and cities, exploring the low-carbon development path from the bottom up in a pragmatic way, contributing to climate change, and opening up new areas for local government cooperation. The next step is to hope that all parties concerned will work closely together to promote the broad participation of all sectors of society and jointly protect the earth's homeland.

In recent years, global climate change has not only affected the health of residents, but also severely restricted economic and social development. Green low carbon development has become a global development consensus.

Xie Yuan said that from the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, to the Paris Agreement in 2015, as a contributor and participant in the global response to climate change, China has been With a clear stance, clear goals, clear paths and solid initiatives, the international community is sending a positive signal to fully respond to climate change and actively promote global green and low carbon development.

As a key player in the response to global climate change, Xie Yuan believes that China and the United States are called "the same fate of the same breath" on the climate issue. He said that the two countries initiated cooperation in the field of environment and energy at the beginning of the establishment of diplomatic relations and have continued to this day. In the process, the cooperation between the two countries in the field of climate change has gradually penetrated the provincial and state level. The local governments of China and the United States explored the low-carbon development path from the bottom up in a pragmatic way, actively promoted climate action, made important contributions to climate change, and opened up new areas for cooperation between the two governments.

At the same time, Xie Yuan also said that China and the United States have great potential for cooperation in the fields of clean energy and low-carbon environmental protection. The two sides can jointly discuss the development of control targets and action plans; jointly promote the innovation of institutional mechanisms and the transformation of industrial structure; share the best practices in low-carbon city construction; jointly create opportunities for financial cooperation in the field of clean energy, "the prospect of cooperation is not Limited edition."