According to Consulate-general of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco's website, "Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who met with Kerry during this meeting, noted that coping with climate change may become a new growth point in Sino China relationship, and China would make positive contributions to the world's movement against climate change."
On July 10, 2013, the U.S. and China agreed on five new action initiatives with the goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and air pollution developed by the U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group.
As the biggest greenhouse gas emitter and the second-largest economy following the United States, China's action will also have vital influence on global carbon-dioxide emissions as well as international climate issue. The informal talks between China's President Xi Jinping and President Obama in June 2013 at Sunnylands in California was the first meeting since Xi Jinping was elected on March 14, 2013. Both countries agreed on building a new type of major-power relationship.
In November of 2013, Xie Zhenhua, the vice chairman of China's national development and reform commission, announced the publication of China's National Climate Change Adaptation Plan at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Warsaw, Poland, which was the first climate-change agenda in China. And that plan indicated that the two countries weren't far apart on at treaty.
At the sixth U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing on July 9, 2014, according to The Washington Post, "the two sides announced small technology-sharing projects to raise energy efficiency and cut coal use, as part of gradual efforts to deepen their cooperation on climate change. This speeded up two countries' deal making."
On November 14, 2014, US China Announcement on Climate Change was published in Beijing, China. John Kerry, who was devoted to making the deal, declared it a milestone in the U.S.-China relationship. Kerry called it, "The outcome of a concerted effort that began last year in Beijing, when State Councilor Yang Jiechi and I started the United States-China Climate Change Working Group."
After the announcement of US China Announcement on Climate Change, bilateral cooperation between the two countries got closer. According to U.S. department of State, from March 18 to 20, 2015, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, Acting Assistant Secretary Judith Garber for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs Jonathan Elkind traveled to Beijing for a series of meetings on climate change and environmental collaboration.
Then on June 23, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang chaired two high-level events to strengthen joint efforts on climate change: one was a public dialogue - "Act on Climate: Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) Celebration of Energy and Environment Cooperation" - moderated by Chairman of the Paulson Institute Hank Paulson; another was a private Joint Session on Climate Change.
Those actions all indicate the birth of another climate-change deal with further and deeper cooperation.
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