US climate envoy Kerry heads to China to restart climate talks

On Sunday, US climate envoy John Kerry will go to China to meet with his colleague Xie Zhenhua and restart stalled talks between the world's two largest producers of greenhouse gases. Kerry's third trip to China as President Joe Biden's climate diplomat comes after weeks of record-breaking summer heat, which experts warn is being worsened by climate change. Bilateral climate negotiations came to a halt last year after Nancy Pelosi, then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, visited self-ruled Taiwan, infuriating Beijing, which considers the island to be its property. However, Kerry, a former secretary of state, has had…