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France’s Macron asks China’s Xi Jinping for signal ahead of COP26
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Posted on October 27, 2021
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Published by maria gbaf
Posted on October 27, 2021
1 min readLast updated: January 29, 2026
Macron urges Xi to send a decisive climate signal before COP26, encouraging China to enhance climate goals and reduce coal reliance.
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron asked China’s President Xi Jinping during a phone call on Tuesday to send the world a “decisive signal” on climate change ahead of the COP26 summit in Scotland on the topic, the French Presidency said in a statement.
Macron encouraged Xi to notably raise China’s goals in terms of efforts to address the climate crisis and to make “concrete” progress toward ending China’s reliance on coal.
Macron also called for greater reciprocity in the rebalancing of the trade relationship between Europe and China, notably in terms of market access.
China is among the major emitters that have yet to submit a new climate target. It has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2060 and stop increasing its emissions before 2030, although it has not pinned down a date by which its emissions will peak.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Chris Reese and Jonathan Oatis)
The main topic is Macron urging Xi Jinping to take decisive climate action ahead of the COP26 summit.
Macron requested China to enhance its climate goals and reduce reliance on coal.
China aims to become carbon-neutral by 2060 and stop increasing emissions before 2030.
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