observers and experts have said that China and the United States have the potential to work together to combat climate change.
Speaking at a recent virtual panel discussion held by the China Institute in America, a U.S. non-profit organization, Siddharth Chatterjee, a UN resident coordinator in China, said that a reinitiated high-level dialogue between the climate envoys from the two countries “gives the world much-needed reassurance and hope in increasingly uncertain times.
According to Chatterjee, the two countries combined influence and leadership, which were on display at COP27, will inspire other countries to make more audacious and bold climate commitments in the interest of a sustainable future.
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He said that by putting aside their differences to consider the future of humanity, China-U.S. climate collaboration can become an oasis that shall not again turn into a desert, adding that there is significant room for cooperation between the two nations, including a transition to employment in the fossil fuel sector and the creation of a regulatory framework and environmental standards regulations.
At the panel discussion, Elizabeth Knup, a representative of the Ford Foundation for China, said she was encouraged by the fact that things were back on track.
Xuhui Lee, director of the Yale Center for Earth Observation and program coordinator of a dual degree program between Yale University and China’s Tsinghua University said that though the data-sharing and sharing modelling framework under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has not been affected by the tension between the two countries, a dual degree program between the sides was hit.
Story was adapted from English News.
