“This is the first time China has joined in saying it’s a crisis,” Kerry told reporters in Seoul last weekend. The American climate czar also said the United States and China agreed on “critical elements on where we have to go.” For all the talk of agreement, Kerry did not obtain a commitment that Beijing would make new pledges at President Biden’s virtual two-day climate summit this week, scheduled to start on Earth Day.
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China, on the contrary, is signaling there will be no climate agreements soon. “For a big country with 1.4 billion people, these goals are not easily delivered,” Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng told the Associated Press at the end of last week. “Some countries are asking China to achieve the goals earlier. I am afraid this is not very realistic.” Countries, in the words of Associated Press, “are expected to announce more ambitious national targets for cutting carbon emissions ahead of or at the meeting, along with pledging fina
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U.S. officials say there has been no breakthrough, but have described the indirect discussions as thorough and thoughtful. Reports say diplomats may even draft an interim deal that would give all sides more time to resolve some of the more complicated technical issues.
Negotiations are starting to pick up pace, even as Iran announces further violations of the deal most significantly its pledge last week to begin enriching uranium to 60% purity, which would bring the fissile material closer to levels required for a bomb. Uranium enrichment needs to be at 90% in order to make a bomb the limit under the 2015 deal was 3.67%.