[천지일보=이솜 기자] On the 2nd (local time), US President Joe Biden launched another attack on Chinese President Xi Jinping, who did not directly attend the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26).
President Biden made a “big mistake” with Xi for not attending a summit where more than 120 world leaders discussed how to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees over the past two days, the Daily Guardian reported.
At a press conference before the world leaders left, President Biden called for cabinets and officials to speak up for two weeks of tense negotiations.
“They didn’t show up,” he said, targeting Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also criticized “how can you do that, how can you have leadership?”
However, President Biden said he did not seek conflict with China and could take a softer stance if China takes more action on climate. “This is competition, not competition,” he said.
Xi did not attend the G20 summit held in Rome, Italy on the 30th and 31st of last month and the COP26 held in Glasgow, England, but instead made a video or written remark.
The day before the meeting, China announced a plan to cut emissions, which many analysts found disappointing. Under the plan, China will peak its emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060, the same target set a year ago.
China’s special envoy for climate change, Shi Jianhua, accused developed countries of failing to cut carbon emissions quickly enough and failing to provide the promised $100 billion a year in climate aid to developing countries. It also defended China’s use of coal, saying that it improved more renewable energy grids and that new power plants were very efficient and replaced old and inefficient ones.
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