Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar overseas investment strategy has not caught up with his green rhetoric, environmentalists warn as countries head to Bonn climate summit
ON June 1, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump announced at the Rose Garden that the U.S. would be “getting out” of the Paris Agreement. The decision was unanimously denounced. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it “a major disappointment for global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote international security.”
The bank will help countries meet the Paris Agreement but its energy strategy still leaves the door open to coal.
No basis for notion of fairness among nations: experts
Report gives credit to government support for clean energy and public desire for change.
China is committed to fulfilling the Paris climate change accord as the country has stepped up efforts to transform to a low-carbon economy, a sharp contrast to the recent moves by US President Donald Trump which erode the US’ ability to deliver on climate promises, experts said Thursday.
