Boao Annual Reports|“Sustainable Development: Asia and the World Annual Report 2021”：Asian governments should focus on four major deficits 王培尧 2021-04-18 17:43 By: GMW.cn
Li Baodong (Secretary-General of Boao Forum for Asia) speaks at the First Press Conference and Flagship Report of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021（Photo by Wang Peiyao/Guangming Picture）
Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 opens on April 18. The Conference held its first press conference and released two flagship reports, Sustainable Asia and the World and Asian Economic outlook and Integration Progress .
The outbreak of COVID-19 has exposed the weaknesses in healthcare system and deficiency in key infrastructures, and underscored the importance of digital transformation and urgency of tackling climate change and environmental challenges. Through analysis of development situation in China, India, Indonesia, Japan,
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China and the United States are the world’s top carbon polluters, pumping out nearly half of the fossil fuel fumes that are warming the planet’s atmosphere. Their cooperation is key to a success of global efforts to curb climate change, but frayed ties over human rights, trade, and China’s territorial claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea have been threatening to undermine such efforts.
Kerry’s Shanghai trip marked the highest-level travel to China by a U.S. official since Biden took office in January. From Shanghai, the former secretary of state flew to South Korea for talks.
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The world s two biggest carbon polluters agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with seriousness and urgency days before President Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders on the issue.
U.S., China Agree To Cooperate On Climate Crisis With Urgency
By The Associated Press
April 18, 2021
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency, just days before President Joe Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue.
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The United States and China are committed to cooperating on the pressing issue of climate change, the two sides have said in a joint statement, following a visit to Shanghai by US climate envoy John Kerry. The United States and China are committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries to tackle the climate crisis, which must be addressed with the seriousness and urgency that it demands, said the statement from Kerry and China s special envoy for climate change Xie Zhenhua.
Mr Kerry, the former US secretary of state, was the first official from President Joe Biden s administration to visit China, signalling hopes the two sides could work together on the global challenge despite sky-high tensions on multiple other fronts.