US envoy John Kerry tells China to separate climate from politics

Climate transformation is a “universal fear” that should be taken care of separately from broader diplomatic problems, US climate envoy John Kerry conveyed Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng on Wednesday after two days of what he named constructive but complicated conversations. Considering the diplomatic problems between the two sides in the past years, Mr Kerry said climate should be treated as a “freestanding” challenge that needs the collective attempts of the world’s hugest economies to solve. “We have the capacity to create a change with consideration to climate,” he said at a meeting at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, China’s sprawling Parliament building. Mr Kerry came in Beijing on Sunday as heat waves heated up parts of Europe, Asia and the United States, underscoring the requirement for governments to take huge action to reduce carbon emissions, which provide to global warming and intense weather conditions.