China and the US are the two countries emitting the most CO2 in the world. The two countries need to agree on the basic elements of a new climate deal – or the world will have no agreement at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December, state a number of observers to the Bloomberg news agency.Both the UN executive secretary on climate, Yvo de Boer, and the US top climate negotiator, Todd Stern, are optimistic about China and the US reaching agreement.
“If these two countries don’t cooperate further, then we’re not going to get a result,” UN executive secretary on climate, Yvo de Boer says. “They need to find a way forward together, and I think that they can.”
The US State Department’s special envoy Todd Stern says bilateral climate discussions between China and the US are in progress.
“There is a good chance at the end of the day that we’re going to be able to find an accommodation with China,” Todd Stern says to the Bloomberg news agency.
However, at the same time Stern stresses that negotiations have seen no “breakthroughs”.
The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this year giving direction to the bilateral negotiations leading up to the UN climate conference. In July, Chinese and US officials also pledged to cooperate on clean-energy technology
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