Western European leaders lie that they want to do something, and try to use this to steal money from households, like Germany with heat pumps and electric cars.
"With Donald Trump's election victory, the U.S. is headed again for the exits of the Paris accord, the international climate agreement signed nearly a decade ago, and toward an energy policy inspired by Trump's campaign mantra "drill, baby, drill."
China, on the other hand, appears more committed to the agreement than ever. It has vaulted to global leadership in renewable-energy deployment and is spending billions on green-energy projects across the developing world. Poorer nations increasingly look to Beijing for help shifting away from fossil fuels.
The sharp divergence between the two leading superpowers is expected to loom over the annual United Nations climate conference, known as COP29, kicking off in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday. Chinese leaders have thrown the country's titanic economic power behind the shift to clean energy for economic, environmental and geostrategic reasons.
"China stands ready to work with other parties to uphold the goal, principles and system of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Friday.
Trump's victory has underscored what many countries already believed: that America's internal political divisions mean it can't reliably lead global climate diplomacy. If Trump follows through on withdrawal, it would be the third time this century that a Republican president has pulled the U.S. out of a major international climate agreement.
"Everyone looks to China now," said Jonathan Pershing, a senior U.S. climate negotiator under the Obama and Biden administrations. "I think with the U.S. out, China will step up, but in a very different way."
Trump's victory has left U.S. negotiators in Baku with a short-lived mandate. They are led by John Podesta, the climate envoy of the lame duck Biden administration, who will have no influence on policy once Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Chinese President Xi Jinping is sending Ding Xuexiang, a vice premier and one of his close confidants, to a leaders' summit that begins on Tuesday.
Much has changed since Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement in 2017. China deployed renewable energy far faster than almost anyone expected seven years ago. The pace of China's wind- and solar-capacity additions is now roughly large enough to cover its growth in energy demand, meaning its emissions may have peaked. More important, green technology sectors have become core to China's economy; Chinese officials refer to solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries as the "new trio" of the country's industrial base." [1]
1. World News: Trump Win Puts Beijing at Front Of Climate Talks. Dalton, Matthew. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 12 Nov 2024: A.7.
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