Mr John Kerry, the US special agent on climate problems, will be coming to China from July 16 to 19, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment revealed about this on Wednesday, the last senior US official to visit Beijing in coming weeks. Mr Kerry’s trip follows a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken latest month, and will visit a week after the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen leaves. Given the scale of their economies, friendship between the US and China is regarded as important to international attempts to avert the worst effects of climate transformation. While in Beijing, Dr Yellen passionately said that both nations need to work in a collaborative way on the issue. China and the United States are the world’s two largest origins of carbon dioxide emissions, and their collaboration is evidently very important to reduce global warming.
Climate experts have their opinion on this and they say that they do not expect Mr Kerry’s trip to provide much help to climate negotiations, considering the current political stress between the two nations, but there are expected corners of cooperation on issues like the abatement of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. “First and foremost, it’s just very essential that it is happening,” said Associate Professor Joanna Lewis, an expert on Chinese climate policies at Georgetown University. “I think it is necessary that some kind of optimistic agenda comes out of this meeting, even if it is plainly an agreement to continue to meet,” she added, during a webinar on US-China climate cooperation on Tuesday.