China to make proposals at the United Nations Summit to fight global warming using nature

[Shanghai 18th Reuters]-The Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China announced a policy briefing document ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York on the 23rd of this month, and solved “utilizing nature” for the root cause of climate change It expressed that it would ask each country to support.

The meeting is expected to attract attention to China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitting country, and environmental organizations are looking forward to more ambitious efforts to combat global warming.

The document, however, did not go into a new policy statement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but supported the “multinational climate process” and stated that it fully complied with the commitments in the Paris Agreement.

China has so far maintained its high economic growth rate while limiting its emission reduction targets to the heavy industry sector, but it has been difficult to achieve results. In response, the company is now planning to “proactively promote” solutions utilizing natural functions such as reforestation and the expansion of grasslands and wetlands.