EU Turns To China For Climate Cues
With U.S. retreat on climate change, EU looks to China
February 3, 2017 (Reuters via The Japan Times)
“Faced with a U.S. retreat from international efforts to tackle climate change, European Union officials are looking to China, fearing a leadership vacuum will embolden those within the bloc seeking to slow the fight against global warming…[Trump environmental transition team leader Myron Ebell recently drew a rebuke from Britain’s former energy minister for calling] climate experts ‘urban imperialists’…But with fault lines over Brexit, dependence on Russian energy and protecting industry threatening the bloc’s own common policy, some EU diplomats worry Europe is too weak to lead on its own…Instead, they are pinning their hopes on China, concerned that without the backing of the world’s second-biggest economy, support for the global pact to avert droughts, rising seas and other affects of climate change will flounder…China’s partnership with former U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration helped get nearly 200 countries to support the Paris climate change pact in 2015…” click here for more
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