Climate talks this week between China and the United States were buoyed by goodwill, but the world's two biggest carbon polluters achieved more on righting their diplomatic relationship than battling climate change.
Despite a strong rapport between the countries' veteran envoys, expectations for a breakthrough were low when John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua sat down for three days of talks in Beijing through Wednesday.
With relations at a low over national security issues, U.S. export bans on advanced technologies and China's state-led industrial policies, Washington has been trying to repair ties between the world's two biggest economies. China has previous shown scepticism around the ability to achieve 1.5C, favouring the less stringent Paris target of 2C.
"Overall, this is as good as it can get," said Li, who has been closely following China-U.S. climate diplomacy for more than a decade.Questions remain about the longer term, should political winds shift in the United States or the two diplomats leave their posts. "We all understand the difficult situation for John Kerry," said Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Environment and Public Affairs, a Beijing environment group.
Top diplomat Wang Yi rejected Kerry's plea to ring-fence climate from broader bilateral disputes, saying climate "cannot be separated from the overall environment of Sino-U.S. relations".
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