Andre Correa do Lago, who will preside over the first climate conference in the Amazon rainforest in November, praised China’s “extraordinary progress” in combatting climate change.

“By reducing the price of solar panels and of electric cars, China is giving infinitely more support to the developing world (on climate change) than if it were just providing symbolic amounts (of aid), which is what the developed countries want,” the seasoned climate expert told journalists in Brasilia.