Yellen Urges China to Step Up Climate Finance Investments

The Biden administration called on China on Saturday to do more to help developing countries combat climate change, urging the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases to back international climate finance funds that it has so far declined to support.

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen delivered the message during her second day of meetings in Beijing, where she is seeking to cultivate areas of cooperation between the United States and China. While China has expressed support for programs to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change, it has resisted paying into such funds, arguing that it is ...