China's green objectives for UN climate talks to cost US$6.6t

Washington

IT will cost China over US$6.6 trillion to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals it will lay out later this month in its strategy for United Nations climate negotiations, the country's lead negotiator for the talks said on Tuesday.

Xie Zhenhua, special representative for climate change affairs at China's National Development and Reform Commission, said that the objectives that China will outline by the end of June will be "quite ambitious".

Mr Xie was participating in a three-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue forum in Washington where he met counterparts in the Obama administration, including US climate negotiator Todd Stern, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gin…