In his written address to the COP26, Xi said, 'I hope all parties will take stronger actions to jointly tackle the climate challenge and protect the planet, the shared home for us all,' he said in his statement which was released here.

Installed wind and solar capacity will more than double, from last year's 535 gigawatts to 1,200GW by 2030, according to the documents published on the website of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The country also aims to increase its forest stock volume by six billion cubic metres, up from its previous target of around 4.5 billion. The updated document includes Xi's pledge last September that China will reach peak carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve neutrality, also known as net-zero, before 2060.Ĭhina also aims to reduce carbon intensity, measured as emissions per unit of GDP, by 65 per cent on 2005 levels, another five per cent increase on its 2016 pledge.

The absence of the top leader from China, which is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases besides the US, sparked off speculation about Beijing’s climate commitment amid official media reports it is seeking to link climate cooperation to the improvement of strained ties with the US.Īhead of the COP26 summit, China has submitted its updated emissions reduction commitment, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), to the United Nations last Thursday, which climate activists termed as modest and said it failed to improve China's ambition by much. Xi’s absence also sparked speculation that he would like to avoid any close door negotiations relating to the pledges on the targets related to China's carbon emissions. On October 30, he addressed the G20 summit in Rome through a video link.īesides Xi, Russian President Vladimir Putin also chose to skip the all-important global climate meet, highlighting the emerging China-Russia strategic tie-up against the Biden-led US-EU alliance. Instead, he has been addressing global events through video links. Xi, 68, has not travelled out of China ever since he returned from his official visit to Myanmar in the middle of January, 2020, which is largely attributed to the coronavirus outbreak.

In his written statement to the COP26, he called on all countries to take 'stronger actions' to jointly tackle the climate challenge and proposed a three-pronged plan of reaching multilateral consensus, focusing on concrete actions and accelerating the green transition to reduce carbon emissions.Īsked why he chose to send a written statement at the COP26 summit instead of addressing via video link, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here on Tuesday that, “As I understand it, the conference organisers did not provide the video link method'.

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