Leading the fight against climate change

President Xi Jinping has said China has always upheld multilateralism and supported the United Nations playing the most active role in international affairs. China has also welcomed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's efforts to promote international cooperation to fight climate change, and has actively pushed for the positive outcome of the UN Climate Action Summit held on Monday.

As Guterres said, the world needs to mobilize political and economic energy at the highest levels to advance climate action that will enable implementation of many of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this regard, acknowledging China's important contributions to addressing climate change and advancing the ASD, the UN has said it hopes to see China playing a more important role in the global fight against climate change.

China has actively engaged in global climate cooperation since the UN formally started multilateral negotiations on a global climate treaty in the 1990s. Over the decades, it has played an increasingly important role in the global fight against climate change. In particular, the UN climate change conference in Paris in 2015 marked the beginning of China's transition from a participant to a leader in global climate governance.