Top Chinese, U.S. Climate Envoys to Hold Meetings in Tianjin This Week

What’s new: China’s special envoy on climate change Xie Zhenhua will meet with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry in the northern city of Tianjin this week to discuss bilateral climate cooperation and the United Nations climate talks scheduled for later this year, according to the Chinese environment ministry.

It will be the pair’s second face-to-face meeting, with the previous in-person discussion taking place in Shanghai in April. Kerry is scheduled to arrive in Tianjin on Tuesday and hold meetings with the Chinese side until Friday, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Environment and Ecology on Tuesday.