Recently, Wang Yi, deputy director of the National Committee of Experts on Climate Change and researcher of the Institute of Science and Technology Strategic Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "China Focus Face-to-face".
In recent years, some countries have shown a tendency towards climate unilateralism in international cooperation on climate change, Wang Yi said, this has affected global cooperation and the multilateral process of addressing climate change.
Wang Yi introduced that climate unilateralism has two tendencies. One is non-cooperation and does not recognize the fact of climate change. Just like the US Trump administration withdrew from the Paris Agreement and adopted a non-cooperative attitude, which affects global cooperation. and multilateral processes to address climate change.
Second, it does not respect the current multilateral rules.
Many developed countries simply want other countries to raise their goals, be more ambitious and more powerful, but ignore the transformation paths and alternatives of these countries.
Wang Yi said that China agrees to continuously reduce fossil energy consumption and make more use of renewable energy, but it needs a just, safe and smooth transition.
In the past year, Europe has experienced the Ukraine crisis and also experienced energy shortages, which shows that we still need a more scientific and reasonable path and a clearer alternative to achieve our goals.
To prevent unilateralism and follow the basic path of multilateralism, we need to strengthen exchanges and communication, and we must promote bilateral and multilateral exchanges and cooperation to increase trust and dispel doubts.
Wang Yi believes that China must be firm in its direction, maintain its strength and rhythm, and at the same time, it must tell China's story through international communication, share the practice, experience and technology of "dual carbon" with other countries, and help other developing countries achieve green and low-carbon Transformation and Sustainability.
(Dong Zeyu and Li Jinlei)
Responsible editor: [Ji Xiang]