Climate advisers for the United States and China found common ground in climate change talks this week, including on sending funds to developing countries and setting new targets for lowering emissions, climate envoy John Podesta said.
Podesta, President Joe Biden’s senior international climate adviser, said differences remained between the countries’ methods for combating climate change but noted the two had “excellent discussions,” Bloomberg reported. Podesta led the meetings with China’s climate envoy, Liu Zhenmin. Podesta also mentioned that officials spent time analyzing each side’s work to reach the goals of their nationally determined contributions for 2030, which include cutting greenhouse emissions and mitigating damage from climate change, and are discussing new targets for 2035.
