China’s Envoy Sees Climate Fight Advancing Even Without US (1)

China’s top climate envoy said the world’s transition to clean energy will continue, even as the US’s second withdrawal from the Paris Agreement puts unprecedented stress on the fight against global warming.

The Trump administration’s exit from the United Nations-led process has created the “most challenging moment” for negotiations since they started in 1990, Liu Zhenmin, China’s special envoy for climate change, said at the Boao Forum in Hainan. But the multilateral process must continue, he said.

Liu Zhenmin

Source: Bloomberg

“The global energy transition is irreversible,” Liu said during a panel discussion on Wednesday. “No one country can stop this process, ...