US, China climate envoys meet at COP27 summit in Egypt

By FRANK JORDANS, KELVIN CHAN and SETH BORENSTEIN
Associated Press

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has met with his Chinese counterpart at annual United Nations climate talks underway in Egypt. It’s the latest sign of improving relations between the world’s top two polluters. Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed a day earlier to resume climate change talks with the United States, which he had put on hold three months earlier in retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan. The meeting comes as developing nations are expressing greater anger and impatience with richer, industrialized nations, saying they are not taking enough action to cut back their emissions or provide help to poorer nations bearing the brunt of disasters rooted in climate change.