US and China’s climate envoys meet at Cop27 summit in Egypt

Government officials have been arriving in Sharm el-Sheikh since Monday to push for a substantial deal by the time the meeting is supposed to finish on Friday

US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks at the Cop27 Climate Summit (Peter Dejong/AP/PA)

US climate envoy John Kerry met his Chinese counterpart at Cop27 in Egypt, in a further hint of improving relations between the world’s top two polluters a day after a meeting between their leaders.

Mr Kerry met China’s top climate official Xie Zhenhua on Tuesday in a room at the Chinese delegation’s offices in the Cop27 conference zone.