Posted on 05/30/2023 4:17:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Biden administration is searching for ways to push the world’s largest polluter to reduce carbon emissions, as superpower rivalries engulf a fragile bilateral relationship that could determine the future of global warming.
Since negotiations between U.S. climate envoy John F. Kerry and his Chinese counterparts stalled in August, Chinese provinces have accelerated their approvals of new coal power plants, sparking fears that China is moving away from its climate goals, not toward them.
Now Biden administration officials are trying to get talks back on track even as they also explore other tools, such as tariffs, that could be tied to the emissions level of products such as steel and aluminum.
How to navigate relations with China was a major focus of the Group of Seven summit this month. Leaders offered a host of tough-on-Beijing language and urged countries that “have the capabilities and are not yet among the current providers of international climate finance” to step up and do more to help developing nations invest in climate-related projects. That was a reference to China and other economically powerful players such as Middle Eastern oil nations.
Chinese factories that churn out batteries, solar panels and others key ingredients of the energy transition are so dominant that any global effort to reduce emissions will end up deeply dependent on Beijing, even as U.S. policymakers try to move manufacturing back to the United States in what G-7 leaders called “de-risking, not decoupling.”
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Fat chance Joey.
Now it’s a “catastrophe”. What’ll it be next? I can hardly wait. They’re running out of verbiage.
India enters the chat.
This is all about defrauding.
Bull shit........ Biden is just seeking a headline and the appearance of doing something
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or perhaps deluding.
Perhaps it would be wise to focus on the American people instead of wasting time, money and resources on every eff’n country other than the United States. That applies with climate change and just about every other issue.
Sign an agreement that both sides immediately ignore.
The critical cities are self destructing.
That’s good and must be allowed, even assisted. For America to be America, the cities as they now exist must be destroyed.
So, the way to assist is to let them continue to rot
LOL! Good luck with that.
The Chinese are far too practical to cut their own throats by sacrificing to Gaia.
China will pretend to cooperate. They will smile, and agree to certain points, in theory. And they might even set a few far-off goals.
This will cause great celebration in the West. But of course nothing will change.
Here’s the scary part. Biden and the West will have to give up something in return for China’s “cooperation”. I shudder to think what that could be.
China has more new coal plants in the pipeline than we have in production. We can’t control the climate anyway, but the fact that they think they’re going to keep the boat from sinking while China deliberately keeps shooting holes in the hull tells you how much they’ve gamed this out.
I think we need to have a liberal activist draft to launch a holy war land invasion of China mainland to take out all of their coal plants. The casualties will be enormous, but everybody wins.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Yeah, right. China sure got their money's worth when they bought China Joe.
Neither China nor India could care less about the West’s ludicrous climate charade. They will play the game as it suits their needs, but meanwhile go their own way to a prosperous “carbon” future.
Climate change? How do you focus on a hoax?
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