Monday 15 May 2017

China Poised To Fill the Emerging Climate Leadership Vacuum

President Trump has launched an all-out assault on Obama’s climate change policies. While the Obama administration worked closely with China to cultivate a global movement to tackle climate change, the new government is committed to abandon all multilateral diplomacy efforts, and fight to impede local climate efforts. The US-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change in 2014 first signaled the return of the G2 leadership. More interestingly, China’s own climate initiatives were realized under close cooperation with the US. The hard-fought 2015 Paris Agreement was once crafted with the participation of the country’s diplomats.  

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