BRASILIA: The Brazilian diplomat who will chair the next United Nations climate summit praised China on Thursday (Jan 23) as an example in the fight against climate change while admonishing rich countries for shirking their responsibilities.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53472470

  • The Brazilian diplomat who will chair the next United Nations climate summit praised China on Thursday (Jan 23) as an example in the fight against climate change while admonishing rich countries for shirking their responsibilities.

  • By reducing the price of solar panels and of electric cars, China is giving infinitely more support to the developing world (on climate change) than if it were just providing symbolic amounts (of aid), which is what the developed countries want.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Brics nation glazes its leader after they make a killing growing their economy and selling solar panels and other products while the rest of the world is trying to lower emissions.

    All the articles that came out early 2024 talking about chinas emission peak because they had 2 quarters of emissions growth slowing down. Well now that 2024 is done we can see that was completely false and emissions continue to rise exponentially.

    Fuck China they are the largest pollutor by far, 2nd largest economy in the world. They have used climate change to grow their economy while the world agreed to reducing emissions. Its not fair and it undermines everything. Why should other countries reduce emissions when the biggest polluters refuses to make any significant progress.