French President Macron welcomed South African President Ramaphosa to the Élysée Palace in Paris for bilateral talks.

Japan's finance minister Katayama said she is closely monitoring economic indicators and market conditions.

China's National Energy Administration issued the Energy Sector Energy-Saving and Carbon Reduction Action Plan (2026–2028), calling for R&D on low-, zero- and negative-carbon frontier technologies. The plan prioritizes clean, high-efficiency use of fossil fuels and large-scale renewables, ramps up strategic frontier R&D to accelerate breakthroughs in supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power generation and CCUS, and targets flexible, high-efficiency wind/solar-to-hydrogen production, large-scale safe hydrogen storage, green hydrogen synthesis catalysis, low-carbon synthesis processes and long-distance hydrogen storage and transport.