As U.N. talks get underway, China is emerging as a key leader in international climate efforts. It is empowering the global energy transition, and along with India and Brazil, is becoming the driving force in climate diplomacy and filling a vacuum left by the world’s rich nations.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52852111

COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.

but now the E.U. is beset by internal problems. Its primary industrial economy, Germany, is suffering from Chinese competition, and with the rise of right-wing parties, resistance has emerged to the ambitious climate policies of the European Commission. One symptom of these internal troubles was the E.U.’s embarrassing failure to agree its own mitigation targets before the informal deadline of September 30.

The United States, meanwhile, is trying to force its partner countries to buy more U.S. oil and gas.

  • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Here’s a quote from the article.

    China is also on track to miss its 2020–25 goal of cutting carbon intensity

    I mean if your not even going to read the article, I’m not going to respond any further.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      That’s your article. I was talking about the articles OP linked which do not contain this phrase anywhere.

      I’m not about to discuss an article that is completely irrelevant for OP’s point.

      • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        I see, so your argument now is new evidence is pointless. Therefore information from thousands of years ago is true regardless of new info. I guess gravity is f=ma and the theory of relativity is pretend because it doesn’t fit your timeline.