China-US climate talks 'encouraging'

Both countries promise bold action on main sources of emissions

The results of climate discussions between China and the United States in Washington are "encouraging", with the climate commitments made by both nations holding global significance, experts said.

Their pledges resonate with the resounding call from the international community to limit the Earth's temperature rise to 1.5 C, as the threat from the global climate crisis looms larger, they said.

Their remarks followed a meeting on Wednesday and Thursday of the two countries' working group on enhancing climate action in the 2020s, which was co-led by China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Liu Zhenmin and John Podesta, the man tipped to become the US' senior adviser to the president for international climate policy.