By He Yin, People’s Daily
At the 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) held in Belem, Brazil, saw intensive discussions and negotiations on critical climate issues as nations collectively worked toward identifying shared solutions to the ongoing climate crisis.
As a proactive contributor and a responsible participant in global climate action, China has been participating in major agenda items and working with all stakeholders to ensure COP30 deliver positive and balanced outcomes. These efforts demonstrate China’s leading role in global climate governance and its image as a responsible major country, contributing greater stability and certainty to the global climate process.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, a critical juncture for global climate governance. The latest Emissions Gap Report 2025 released by the UN Environment Programme shows that the world is facing significant challenges in achieving the Paris Agreement’s key climate goals. A particularly concerning issue is the widening gap between climate-finance commitments and actual financial needs. Meanwhile, some countries remain reluctant to advance energy transitions, leaving the world grappling with a “double deficit” in both momentum and trust.
At this moment, it is crucial for nations to uphold true multilateralism, strengthen solidarity and cooperation, adhere to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and translate commitments into concrete action to ensure steady and sustained progress in global climate governance.
During COP30, China has played a positive and constructive role, working with all parties to support the Brazilian presidency in ensuring the conference’s success. China remains committed to helping chart the course and create conditions for global climate governance in the next decade, on the basis of upholding multilateralism and focusing on implementation.
China hosted a series of side events at the China Pavilion, focusing on key themes such as China’s roadmap for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, its energy transition, and new-energy development, sharing its experience and insights for global climate governance. As President of COP30 Andre Correa do Lago noted, China is developing solutions that benefit everyone.
Harmony between humanity and nature is a defining hallmark of Chinese modernization. China has made carbon peaking and carbon neutrality a national strategy, established the most systematic and comprehensive carbon reduction policy framework in the world, and built the largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, the largest and most complete new energy industrial chain, and achieved the world’s largest and fastest promotion and adoption of new energy vehicles. As the world’s largest developing country, China will achieve the highest reduction in carbon emission intensity and complete the transition from peak carbon to carbon neutrality quicker than any other country. Its pursuit of green development continues to inject new momentum into global sustainable development.
In tackling climate change, China remains a steadfast advocate of multilateralism, a strong proponent of international cooperation, a major contributor to low-carbon technologies, and an important leader in the global green transition.
China has fully and proactively implemented the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement, making significant strides toward its 2030 nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Notably, China has already achieved key targets ahead of schedule, such as the total installed capacity of wind and solar power and increases in forest stock volume.
By the end of October 2025, China had signed 55 memoranda of understanding on South-South cooperation to address climate change with 43 developing countries. Additionally, China has also submitted its 2035 NDC to the UNFCCC Secretariat, which for the first time cover all economic sectors and all greenhouse gases.
China’s growing influence in the global energy transition has been widely acknowledged by the international community. It has made significant contributions to global climate response, particularly in supporting developing countries, and has inspired other nations to jointly pursue a more sustainable future. As a responsible major country, China has become a pivotal leader in global climate governance through its substantive actions and commitments.
Climate change presents a global challenge demanding collective action from all sides. China will continue accelerating its comprehensive transition toward green and low-carbon development to strengthen its contribution to addressing climate change. Developed countries, for their part, must uphold their historical responsibilities, lead efforts in reducing emissions, and provide developing countries with sufficient financial, technological, and capacity-building support.
It is hoped that all parties can build on the outcomes of COP30, advance climate multilateralism, accelerate the global transition toward green and low-carbon development, and work together toward a clean, more sustainable world that benefits all humanity.
Working together for steady, long-term progress in global climate governance
