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‘Lack of capacity’: China climate envoy rejects US, EU overcapacity claims at Dalian forum
- Liu Zhenmin says China will build up clean energy production, arguing nations need ‘much cheaper’ technologies to achieve carbon neutrality
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China’s special envoy for climate change has called for expanded production of the country’s renewable energy products, citing a strong global demand, in a sharp dismissal of overcapacity claims raised by Western economies.
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“[There are] only two groups of countries that are talking about so-called overcapacity. One is the United States, the other [is] the European Union,” Liu Zhenmin told an international forum on Tuesday.
“For the rest of the world, for international organisations including the United Nations … [and] globally speaking, there is no overcapacity.”
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Liu China’s former vice-minister for foreign affairs, was responding to a question at a panel discussion on climate leadership at the 15th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian.
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