The US would offer technological help to world's biggest polluter China to enable it achieve its target of emission reduction, a top official said on Thursday, acknowledging that China, India and Brazil have made significant commitments at Copenhagen.
Ahead of his visit to China and Indonesia, US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has said not only the western world, but developing countries including India, China and Brazil made strong commitments to far-reaching climate agreements.
"When we go to China next week, we will inform the leaders of China that American companies have both the technology and the resources to help China, and indeed India -- Indonesia -- solve the unprecedented energy and environmental challenges that their two countries face," Locke said at the Washington Foreign Press Center.
He said while commitments have been made, the question now revolves around how to implement them collectively.
"Of course, the Chinese have set very aggressive targets. Indonesia has set a very aggressive target as well. We in the United States, of course, are prepared to move forward," said Locke, who next week is leading a clean-energy trade mission to China and Indonesia.
This will be the first Cabinet-level trade mission under President Barack Obama. "It comes on the heels of President Obama's national export initiative, which seeks to double American exports over the next five years and supporting some two million new jobs in the process," he said.
"Here at home, every American should know that when a US clean-energy company finds success abroad, it creates more jobs here at home in the United States.
"In fact, some of the companies on this trip produce over 90 per cent of the components for the products that they sell overseas right here in the US," Locke said.
