The United States hopes to further enhance cooperation with China and make the upcoming Copenhagen meeting a success, said John Forbes Kerry, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on Tuesday.
"This is a critical moment for the U.S.-China relations and we have the ability here to cooperate and make the Copenhagen (meeting) a success," Kerry told a press conference on the China-U.S. Clean Energy Forum.
A United Nations meeting on climate change is to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark at the end of this year.
Kerry noted that the United States and China are the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters and should join hands to help find the ways in which Copenhagen meeting can be a success.
"I personally believe that the success of Copenhagen can be defined by what China and the United States agree on over the course of the next few weeks," said Kerry.
According to Kerry, the Obama administration is sending a negotiating team here in the next two weeks or so. The U.S. president's top science advisor John Holdren and the designated negotiator for climate change Todd Stern will be coming.
He said, "we are very hopeful that we will lay the ground work in the discussion...in order to maximize our ability to advance the Copenhagen negotiating process."
Talking about China's efforts in tackling climate change, Kerry said, " China has made many significant steps and we acknowledge that."
China is in some ways moving ahead of the United States in certain areas, for instance, automobile emission standards and wind power exploitation, said Kerry.
If two countries -- powerful economies like China and the United States -- are creating about 50 percent of all the world's emissions, obviously what these two countries decide to do will have a profound impact on the rest of the world, said Kerry.
The China-U.S. Clean Energy Forum is a non-profit entity consisting of leading figures and energy experts from China and the United States. Its mission is to recommend specific and transformational actions to the governments of the two countries to improve energy efficiency, accelerate the deployment of clean energy and thereby reduce carbon emissions.
Source:Xinhua
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