China and the United States issue a Sunshine Land statement on strengthening cooperation to address the climate crisis

, CCTV news reported that China and the United States issued a statement on strengthening cooperation to deal with the climate crisis.

statement mentioned that China and the United States are committed to the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement and its decisions, including the Glasgow Climate Agreement and the Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan. The two countries stressed the importance of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP28) for a meaningful response to the climate crisis in this critical decade and beyond. The two countries recognize that both countries have an important role in implementing the goals of the Paris Agreement and promoting multilateralism, both in terms of domestic responses and joint cooperative actions. For the sake of present and future generations, both countries will work together and with other parties to the Convention and the Paris Agreement to confront one of the world's greatest challenges today.

, China and the United States decided to launch the "Enhanced Climate Action Task Force for the 2020 s" to conduct dialogue and cooperation to accelerate concrete climate action in the 2020 s. The working groups will focus on the areas of cooperation identified in the joint statement and the joint declaration, including energy transition, methane, circular economy and resource efficiency, low-carbon sustainable provinces/states and cities, deforestation, and other topics as agreed by both parties.

In the critical decade of the 2020 s, the two countries support the efforts of the G20 Leaders Declaration to striveto triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, and plans to fully accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in both countries from now to 2030 at 2020 levels to accelerate the replacement of coal oil and gas power generation, so that meaningful absolute reductions in power industry emissions can be expected after peak.