China and France have agreed that any global pact on climate change at a meeting in Paris next month should include a mechanism to monitor progress on emission cuts every five years, with a view to ratcheting up commitments.
François Hollande, France’s president, said that support for a monitoring system from China, the world’s biggest polluter, was a “major step” forward that created a “likelihood the Paris conference will succeed”.
Mr Hollande was meeting Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing as Paris prepares to host delegates from nearly 200 countries to try to strike an accord to keep the rise in global temperatures below 2C, an internationally-agreed goal scientists say should be met to avoid risky changes in the climate.
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