Xi Jinping calls on the G20 to be an example in reducing carbon emissions

President chino, Xi Jinping, today asked the member countries of the G20 gathered in Rome to be “an example” in reducing carbon emissions, a field in which they should adapt to the “difficulties” that developing nations have, to which they should provide “technology and financing”.

Xi underscored the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” on the climate issue shortly before the UN climate summit (COP26) is held in Glasgow, UK, and assured that the Chinese economy is already “in transition green”

Xi, who has not left China since the beginning of the pandemic, appeared by videoconference before the representatives of the G20 countries.

The Chinese president repeated what he said at the virtual meeting of the G20 held in November 2020, when he stated that the Asian country “will strive to reach the peak of CO2 emissions before 2030 to reach net zero emissions before 2060.”

In the health section, the Chinese president, like his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, asked the G20 in his speech for “mutual recognition” of the vaccines approved by the World Health Organization, which should have “equal treatment” to make them “more accessible to developing countries.”

According to Xi, the G20 countries should “accept their responsibilities” in the face of “changes and a pandemic unique in a century,” for which China “has already provided more than 1.6 billion doses of vaccines to more than 100 countries and international organizations. ”, He assured.

In the economic field, Xi called for efforts to ensure “normal functioning” of the international financial and economic system and greater “coordination of macroeconomic policies” between economic powers to avoid “damage” to developing countries.

In a context of uncertainty in the world economy, Xi proposed to the G20 leaders to hold an “international forum focused on the stability of industrial and supply chains”, which have been affected globally since the beginning of the pandemic.

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