By Sylvie Corbert.

ARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande hopes to use a state visit to China to boost difficult climate negotiations, a month before a U.N. conference in Paris aimed at slowing global warming.

China, the most populous country and the biggest emitter of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the world, has promised it will try to cap its rising emissions before 2030 as part of its national pledge ahead of the Paris conference.

China has ‘a leading role’ in influencing other developing countries on this issue

Hollande says he intends to launch a bilateral appeal with Chinese President Xi Jinping “to make the climate conference a success.”