Seoul šC The United States and China have agreed to fight climate change ¡°with the seriousness and urgency that it demands¡± by stepping up efforts to reduce carbon emissions, a rare demonstration of cooperation amid escalating tensions over a raft of other issues.
The agreement, which included few specific commitments, was announced Saturday night, Washington time, after U.S. President Joe Biden¡¯s climate envoy, John Kerry, visited China for three days of talks in which the negotiators managed not to be sidetracked by those disputes.
¡°It¡¯s very important for us to try to keep those other things away, because climate is a life-or-death issue in so many different parts of the world,¡± Kerry said in an interview Sunday morning in Seoul, where he met with South Korean officials to discuss global warming. ¡°What we need to do is prove we can actually get together, sit down and work on some things constructively.¡±
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