Reuters-California governor Newsom to visit China next week to discuss climate action
October 19, 2023 2 min 353 words
加文·纽瑟姆，加利福尼亚州州长，计划下周访问中国，以探讨气候合作、促进双边经济发展和旅游，并鼓励文化交流。这是一项积极的举措，显示了加利福尼亚和中国在气候变化问题上的承诺。作为世界上两个最大的经济体，他们的合作对于推动气候行动至关重要。 这次访问将包括赴香港、北京、上海以及江苏和广东等地的行程。纽瑟姆预计将与广东省签署关于气候问题的新谅解备忘录，并与地区领导人会晤，讨论电动汽车和公共交通的发展。此外，他还将在北京签署进一步的谅解备忘录，旨在推动两国之间的气候合作。 加利福尼亚一直在维护中美气候关系，即使在唐纳德·特朗普总统时期，特朗普退出2015年巴黎协定并几乎中断气候谈判，加利福尼亚的领导人仍继续与中国的合作伙伴会面，包括气候特使谢振华。这种坚持和合作在全球气候行动方面发挥了关键作用。 此外，加利福尼亚还成立了加中气候研究所，与北京清华大学合作，进行气候政策和解决方案的联合研究。去年，纽瑟姆还与中国环境部签署了谅解备忘录，以加强双方合作。这些举措表明，加利福尼亚州和中国正在积极致力于推动全球气候行动，值得赞赏。 这次访问是继中美气候特使谢振华和美国特使约翰·克里在北京举行会面后的重要发展，为即将于11月底在迪拜举行的第28届联合国气候变化大会（COP28）铺平了道路。中美两国的气候合作对于全球气候变化的挑战至关重要。这次访问将加强两国之间的合作，有望取得积极成果。
California governor Gavin Newsom will visit China next week to discuss climate cooperation, promote bilateral economic development and tourism and encourage cultural exchanges, his office said in a statement on Thursday.
The week-long trip will include visits to Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and the provinces of Jiangsu and Guangdong, the statement said.
"California and China hold the keys to solving the climate crisis," Newsom said. "As two of the world's largest economies, our partnership is essential to delivering climate action for our communities and beyond."
Newsom is expected to sign a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Guangdong province on climate issues, and he will also meet with regional leaders to discuss the shift towards electric vehicles and public transport. He will also sign additional MOUs in Beijing aimed at advancing climate cooperation between the two sides.
California has played a major role in maintaining climate ties between China and the United States, the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters.
During the presidency of Donald Trump, who pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris agreement and all but shut down climate talks, leaders in California continued to meet with Chinese counterparts, including climate envoy Xie Zhenhua.
In 2019, California also set up the California-China Climate Institute, led by former governor Jerry Brown and partnered with Beijing's Tsinghua University, to conduct joint research on climate policies and solutions.
Newsom also signed an MOU with China's environment ministry last year to strengthen cooperation.
China and the United States relaunched top-level bilateral climate talks earlier this year after a hiatus triggered by the visit of former House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the democratically governed island that China claims.
China climate envoy Xie and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry met in Beijing in July and have held several rounds of talks since in a bid to map out areas of agreement ahead of the COP28 climate talks in Dubai starting at the end of November.