UN Climate Chief Lavishes Praise on China as Trump Meets Xi

China is reaping benefits as a global leader on the green transition and other nations should follow as the Iran war shows the vulnerability of a fossil fuel-based economy, according to the top United Nations climate official.

“The further China goes, the faster the clean energy transition accelerates — the greater the benefit to your people and economy,” Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in the text of a speech to be delivered Thursday in Beijing. “Where China leads, others follow. ”