John Kerry, the Biden administration’s top climate official, joined a virtual meeting on climate change co-hosted by China on Tuesday but had “no plans” to meet with his Chinese counterpart during the event, a US State Department representative said.
The meeting – an annual “Ministerial on Climate Action”, in which high-level officials discuss their implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement – comes just days after top diplomats from Washington and Beijing met for the first time, in Alaska, verbally sparring in front of cameras over a range of issues from human rights to trade policy to proper diplomatic protocol.
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