{"id":49850,"date":"2024-01-15T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=49850"},"modified":"2024-01-15T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:25:26","slug":"veteran-us-and-chinese-climate-envoys-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/15\/veteran-us-and-chinese-climate-envoys-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran US and Chinese climate envoys step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The veteran climate envoys from the world&#8217;s two biggest polluters have stepped down in the same week, creating uncertainty at the top of international climate talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After suffering health problems, 74-year-old Xie Zhenhua Chinese climate envoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinanews.com.cn\/gn\/2024\/01-12\/10144936.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> earlier this month and will be replaced by foreign ministry diplomat Liu Zhenmin.<\/p>\n<p>The same week this news broke, 80-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/01\/13\/john-kerry-biden-campaign-climate-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Kerry told<\/a> US President Joe Biden that he would step down as climate envoy in the next few months. He will campaign for Biden to win the presidential election in November. His replacement is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>With the European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/08\/30\/eu-nominates-wopke-hoekstra-as-top-climate-diplomat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appointing<\/a> a new top climate diplomat last year and holding elections in June, all three of the world&#8217;s biggest polluters will be led by relatively new faces at Cop29 in November.<\/p>\n<h3>US-China ties<\/h3>\n<p>Xie has led China&#8217;s climate diplomacy for most of the period since 2007 while Kerry was heavily involved in climate talks as Barack Obama&#8217;s foreign minister and Biden&#8217;s climate envoy.<\/p>\n<p>The two have a close personal relationship, shown most recently by Xie bringing his grandchildren to Cop28 in Dubai to sing happy birthday to Kerry. Xie&#8217;s return from retirement in 2021 was widely interpreted as a response to Kerry&#8217;s appointment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28916\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28916\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Xie_Zhenhua_China_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Xie_Zhenhua_China_800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Xie_Zhenhua_China_800-112x63.jpg 112w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Xie_Zhenhua_China_800-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Xie_Zhenhua_China_800-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2016\/02\/Xie_Zhenhua_China_800-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xie Zhenhua is a veteran of UN climate talks (Pic: UN Photos)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They have attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/04\/25\/despite-taiwan-and-spy-baloon-tensions-china-invites-us-for-climate-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keep US-China climate talks going<\/a> despite wider geopolitical tensions, particularly over China&#8217;s relationship with Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides are now talking about cooperation on issues like methane, clean electricity and urban climate action. But the outcome of US elections later this year could scupper talks.<\/p>\n<h3>China&#8217;s climate lead<\/h3>\n<p>Xie was appointed vice chair of China&#8217;s top economic planning body in 2007 and put in charge of climate talks. He was in the post until 2020 when he briefly retired before being re-appointed in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Former US negotiator Todd Stern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/12\/11\/legacy-xie-zhenhua-minister-transformed-chinas-climate-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described him<\/a> in 2019 as a\u00a0 steadfast defender of Chinese interests who was likable, cared about climate change and wanted to get things done.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/11\/witness-bribing-ministers-family-own-congolese-carbon-credit-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Witness bribing<\/strong> minister\u2019s family own Congolese carbon credit company<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over his tenure, China has become more proactive about wanting to tackle climate change. It has set a net zero goal, established a carbon market, become a renewable energy leader and pledged to stop financing new coal power overseas &#8211; although it still plans to build many new coal plants.<\/p>\n<p>Xie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/02\/04\/climate-veteran-xie-zhenhua-returns-chinas-special-envoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oversaw<\/a> secret work to model different pathways for China to reach net zero emissions \u2013 models that eventually informed President Xi Jinping\u2019s aim to reach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2020\/09\/22\/xi-jinping-china-will-achieve-carbon-neutrality-2060\/\">carbon neutrality by 2060<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered what Kerry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/04\/25\/despite-taiwan-and-spy-baloon-tensions-china-invites-us-for-climate-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> &#8220;something of a stroke&#8221; in January 2023 which prevented him from working and travelling abroad for much of this year, although he did lead China at Cop28 in Dubai.<\/p>\n<h3>The new boss<\/h3>\n<p>His replacement Liu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/desa\/page\/mr-liu-zhenmin-under-secretary-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously worked<\/a> for the United Nations as one of its second-highest ranking officials, focussing on economic and social affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, he was an ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and then China&#8217;s deputy foreign minister and worked on the Paris and Kyoto climate agreements.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49853\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/Liu-Zhenmin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/15121152\/Liu-Zhenmin.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/15121152\/Liu-Zhenmin-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/15121152\/Liu-Zhenmin-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/15121152\/Liu-Zhenmin-112x63.jpg 112w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2024\/01\/15121152\/Liu-Zhenmin-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liu Zhenmin poses for his official United Nations portrait (Photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sites\/un2.un.org\/files\/liu-portrait_1.jpg\">United Nations<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One China climate watcher, who did not want to be named, told Climate Home that many experts wanted someone from the environment ministry appointed not someone like Liu from the foreign service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To oversimplify,&#8221; they said, the&#8221;[foreign ministry] approaches climate as a card in U.S.-China grand bargain&#8221; whereas the &#8220;environment [ministry] sees climate change as a real issue that needs to be solved&#8221;. The foreign ministry &#8220;is known to be conservative and inaccessible&#8221;, they added.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the source said that Liu was &#8220;probably the most familiar with climate issues in China&#8217;s foreign service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chatham House analyst Bernice Lee said, &#8220;sure, he is not from the environment ministry but no doubt he will be a fast learner not just in substance but also the building of an international network&#8221;. She described him as a &#8220;diplomat&#8221;, adding &#8220;challenging times require someone with diplomatic skills&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Big hitter gone<\/h3>\n<p>After rising up as a Vietnam war veteran, senator and failed presidential candidate, Kerry was appointed as Barack Obama&#8217;s secretary of state in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry worked with Xie to agree on carbon-cutting deals between the two nations which helped land the Paris Agreement in 2015. He went on to sign it with his granddaughter on his lap the next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/10\/a-la-carte-menu-saudi-minister-claims-cop28-fossil-fuel-agreement-is-only-optional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cA la carte menu\u201d:<\/strong> Saudi minister claims Cop28 fossil fuel agreement is only optional<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kerry left office when Donald Trump was elected in 2016. He came back into the fold immediately after the election of Joe Biden, who chose him as a presidential envoy on climate change. Kerry led the US delegation at Cop26, Cop27 and Cop28.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Schmidt, from the Natural Resources Defence Council, said Kerry &#8220;helped rally the world around a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels, speed the growth of clean energy, and begin to mobilise resources to help the world\u2019s most vulnerable nations cope with the consequences of the climate crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry&#8217;s successor is unknown. His two deputies are Rick Duke and Sue Biniaz. If Donald Trump wins the presidential election in November, he is unlikely to appoint a climate envoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xie Zhenhua has stepped down and John Kerry has announced he will do the same in a few months time","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":49502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1483,98],"tags":[3917],"coauthors":[4545],"class_list":["post-49850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-un-climate-talks","category-us","tag-china","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Veteran US and Chinese climate envoys step down<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Xie Zhenhua, the Chinese climate envoy, has stepped down. 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