Contrary to 2012 claims from US President-elect Donald Trump, China did not invent climate change as a hoax to sabotage manufacturing, the Vice Foreign Minister has said.
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| Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin, July 13, 2016 in Beijing, China. (VCG via Getty Images) |
Foreign Ministers are meeting in Marrakech this week to discuss the framework of last year’s Paris agreement on greenhouse gas emissions, but it is a meeting overshadowed by uncertainty about America’s support for the deal under a Trump administration.
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“If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s,” Vice-Foreign Minister Liu said on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg.
On the campaign trail, Mr Trump said he would tear up the Paris deal, stop funding international climate change programs, and bring new life to America’s coal and industries.
US Secretary of State John Kerry addressed concerns over Mr Trump head-on at the conference.
“While I can't stand here and speculate about what policies our president-elect will pursue, I will tell you this – In the time that I have spent in public life, one of the things I've learned is that some issues look a little bit different when you're actually in office compared to when you're on the campaign trail,” Secretary Kerry said.
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