Climate Ambition Summit

In a speech delivered on Saturday at the Climate Ambition Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping made three proposals:

1. to close ranks and make new advances in climate governance that features cooperation and win-win;
2. to raise ambition and foster a new architecture of climate governance where every party does its part; and

3. to boost confidence and pursue a new approach to climate governance that highlights green recovery.

China will lower its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by over 65 percent from the 2005 level, and increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25 percent.
China will increase its forest stock volume by 6 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level, and bring its total installed capacity of wind and solar power to over 1.2 billion kilowatts

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