Will China Save the Planet? A Medium article

"As climate studies grow more urgent and the Trump administration continues to undermine climate action, all eyes are on the world’s biggest country — and currently its biggest polluter — to model the way forward."


"As a U.S.–based environmental advocate whose focus is on China, I’m in a unique position to compare and contrast the trajectories of both countries — the world’s two biggest emitters of carbon — as they grapple with the enormous threat of climate change and take steps to combat it. In my new book, Will China Save The Planet?, I explore one key difference in how the governments of the two nations are addressing the issue. While the United States under President Trump has shamefully stalled on the very real climate progress that was made during the Obama administration, China has owned up to its oversize role in putting greenhouse gases into the earth’s atmosphere. Accordingly, it has committed itself to play an oversize role in slowing the CO2 juggernaut and establishing the groundwork for a 21st-century clean-energy economy."


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Will China Save the Planet?

As climate studies grow more urgent and the Trump administration continues to undermine climate action, all…

Barbara Finamore in Natural Resources Defense Council6 min read