China warns against obstructive trade restrictions and tariffs to fight climate change
China’s delegation participating in the COP30 climate conference organized by the United Nations, held in the Brazilian city of Belem, warned that trade restrictions, including the US administration’s tariffs and European Union measures, undermine global efforts to limit climate warming and weaken climate ambition.
The American Bloomberg Agency quoted Wang Yi, an environmental economist and permanent member of the National People’s Congress, China’s supreme legislative body, as saying that the increase The use of unilateral policies has raised costs and slowed the wider diffusion of green products around the world, hindering the global transition.
He warned that such measures, rather than contributing to reducing emissions, risk fragmenting global supply chains and undermining confidence at a time when cooperation is needed most.
Vice Minister of the Environment Li Gao and other Chinese government officials have also publicly warned against policies that could limit the flow of Chinese green technology exports, using diplomatic language. For his part, Zhu Liang, President of the Chinese Circular Economy Association, said: “In our economic transition, China has incurred huge costs, starting from high consumption of resources and energy, all the way to pollution and costly waste treatment.” He added: “We are now able to provide the world with high-quality green products at reasonable prices, but what followed was an increase in unilateral measures.” Some parts of the new EU regulations for electric cars and batteries, he saw as establishing unequal standards and certification requirements.
He said: "Our products get their own environmental certificates when they enter the European Union, but they do not recognize them and insist that these certificates come from certain bodies of the European Union."
On the other hand, Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union Climate Commissioner, said that China is the largest emitter in the world, recently identified It aims to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% of their maximum level over the next decade, while “striving to achieve better performance.”
However, China’s advisors emphasized that the top priority for COP30 is to support the COP presidency and ensure its success. The Chinese government sent a large delegation of about 800 people to the Thirtieth Conference of the Parties, confirming its support for Brazil, a member of the BRICS group.
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