China is increasing its efforts to promote a green transition in response to the climate crisis. CGTN's Gao Ang sits down with Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General of the World Energy Council, for insights into the energy transition in China, the rest of Asia, and across the world. They discuss COP 28, the leading UN climate conference, and the need for global cooperation.

ANGELA WILKINSON Secretary General and CEO World Energy Council "I think the COP process has transformed the way we think about global science. It's, first of all, related to a global science initiative on pulling all the knowledge about how climate change works and the role of human action in creating an anthropogenic, climate change or human-induced climate change, and then associated that has been the ministerial negotiation. I think the COP negotiation is quite slow, but that's how government-to-government negotiations work. I think this COP will be very special because it's the first global stocktake of progress since the Paris Agreement. And we all know that it's going to show we're a long way off track where we need to be. It's going to have, I'm sure, launch many initiatives about how we implement and close the gap."

GAO ANG CGTN Reporter "The energy transition will be one of the most important topics at this year's COP28. How do you evaluate current efforts in the Asia Pacific region and globally?"

ANGELA WILKINSON Secretary General and CEO World Energy Council "Asia has an increasingly huge role to play. It's now 55 percent of global emissions. It's the fastest-growing region for population and energy demand. This is where the solutions are really going to come from. This is where the solutions are most needed. This is where I am seeing from State Grid and in China solutions on a tremendously massive scale and at a faster speed than ever before. So I would like to encourage our friends, our business partners, our colleagues in China, to come and share what they are learning and learn also from other regions about how we can solve the most pressing challenge facing all of humanity."