Days after China sent US climate envoy John Kerry home empty handed, Beijing has given Alok Sharma, the COP26 President and the UK’s senior climate official, the same message: China won’t cave in to Western demands, plunging Joe Biden’s and Boris Johnson’s Net Zero agenda into doubt.
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We won’t be bullied into going green, says China — UK Times
Beijing has told Britain that it will not yield to international pressure for bigger improvements to its climate change commitments at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow.
Beijing’s warning came after Alok Sharma, the UK senior climate change representative, arrived for pre-summit talks with the intention of persuading China to “enhance” its carbon emissions reduction targets.
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Brics nations join India in opposing EU carbon tax
NEW DELHI: Aligning themselves with India’s stand against the EU’s proposed carbon border tax, the other BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa – on Friday jointly opposed the proposal calling it “discriminatory”.
Expressing their concerns over the EU’s move, these four countries along with India also put forward their formal objections to the proposal in the ‘New Delhi statement on environment’ as they pledged to cooperate with each other and take joint stands at multilateral forum.
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