China and the United States have reached a joint declaration on strengthening climate action and pla

Original title: China and the United States reached a joint declaration on strengthening climate action and plans to cooperate in these areas
Beijing News (reporter Zhang Lu) in November 11th, the official account of the Ministry of ecology and environment released the news. In November 10th, China and the United States released the Sino US Joint Declaration on strengthening climate action in 2020s during the UN climate change conference in Glasgow.
The two sides agreed to establish the "enhanced Climate Action Working Group in the 1920s"
Sources said that the two sides appreciated the work carried out so far and pledged to continue to work together and work with all parties to strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement. On the basis of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and taking into account the national conditions of each country, we should take intensified climate action to effectively respond to the climate crisis. The two sides agreed to establish the "enhanced Climate Action Working Group in the 1920s" to promote bilateral climate change cooperation and multilateral process.
The two countries pledged to respond to the climate crisis by taking accelerated action in the key decade of the 1920s and cooperating in multilateral processes, including the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, in order to avoid catastrophic effects.
The two sides plan to cooperate in the following five aspects: the regulatory framework and environmental standards related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the 1920s; Maximize the social benefits of clean energy transformation; Encouraging policies to promote decarbonization and electrification of end-user industries; Key areas related to circular economy, such as green design and renewable resource utilization; Deploy and apply technologies such as carbon capture, utilization, storage and direct air capture.
China plans to formulate a national action plan for methane
In particular, the two countries recognize the significant impact of methane emissions on warming, and believe that increasing action to control and reduce methane emissions is a necessary matter in the 1920s. To this end, the two countries plan to cooperate to strengthen the measurement of methane emissions; Exchange information on their respective policies and plans to strengthen methane control; Promote joint research on methane emission reduction challenges and solutions. The United States has announced its methane emission reduction action plan.
Taking into account the above cooperation, the two sides will take the following actions as appropriate before the 27th conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change: the two sides plan to formulate additional measures to strengthen methane emission control at the national and subnational levels. China plans to formulate a comprehensive and vigorous national action plan for methane in addition to its recent national independent contributions, so as to achieve remarkable results in controlling and reducing methane emissions in the 1920s. China and the United States plan to hold a joint meeting in the first half of 2022 to focus on strengthening Methane Measurement and emission reduction, including reducing methane emissions from fossil energy and waste industries through standards, and reducing agricultural methane emissions through incentives and projects.
The two countries plan to report the national independent contribution in 2035 in 2025
In order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the two countries plan to cooperate in the following aspects: support the effective integration of policies with high proportion, low cost and intermittent renewable energy; Encourage transmission policies that effectively balance power supply and demand across a wide area; Distributed generation policies that encourage the integration of solar energy, energy storage and other clean energy solutions closer to the end of power use; Energy efficiency policies and standards to reduce power waste. The United States has set the goal of achieving 100% zero carbon pollution power by 2035. China will gradually reduce coal consumption during the Tenth Five Year Plan period and do its best to speed up this work.
The two sides plan to jointly support the elimination of global illegal deforestation through the effective implementation of their respective laws prohibiting illegal imports.
With regard to the twenty Sixth Conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, the two countries support strong, balanced and inclusive results in mitigation, adaptation and support, and must send a clear signal that the parties to the Paris Agreement recall that the purpose of the Paris Agreement is to control the rise of global average temperature below 2 ℃, And strive to limit it to 1.5 ℃, and commit to make efforts, including taking strong actions in this key decade, so that the above temperature rise limit objectives can be achieved, including informing or updating the national independent contribution and long-term strategy in 2030 when necessary.
The two countries attach importance to the goal of collectively mobilizing US $100 billion a year by 2020 and until 2025 within the framework of meaningful mitigation actions and implementation transparency promised by developed countries to respond to the needs of developing countries, and emphasize the importance of fulfilling the goal as soon as possible.
The two countries plan to report the national independent contribution in 2035 in 2025. The two sides also plan to establish the "enhanced Climate Action Working Group in the 1920s", which will hold regular meetings to deal with the climate crisis and promote the multilateral process, focusing on strengthening concrete actions in this decade.
Beijing News reporter Zhang Lu
Edited by Bai Shuang checked by Zhao Lin