From deals on electric cars to solar panels, all sides could benefit from the global green energy transition, says Simone Tagliapietra of the Brussels-based thinktank Bruegel
Makes sense, hardly news, but helps to restate periodically. All three need to show they are serious by closing down coal power fast - China still has a lot. CO2 emissions per capita in China have been higher than european average for many years now, their response was always ‘so what about US’.
25 years ago I made a presentation with some climate-equity model graphics at the Energy Research Institute in a village some 10km beyond Beijing, the director Zhou Dadi (a key policy guy) said - “well we have plenty of experts who could make such model calculations, the problem is trust, the reason I believe you is that you came on the bicycle” - as I had (and also by train from europe). I doubt he’d say anything like that now, in the concrete jungle they have built since.
Makes sense, hardly news, but helps to restate periodically. All three need to show they are serious by closing down coal power fast - China still has a lot. CO2 emissions per capita in China have been higher than european average for many years now, their response was always ‘so what about US’.
25 years ago I made a presentation with some climate-equity model graphics at the Energy Research Institute in a village some 10km beyond Beijing, the director Zhou Dadi (a key policy guy) said - “well we have plenty of experts who could make such model calculations, the problem is trust, the reason I believe you is that you came on the bicycle” - as I had (and also by train from europe). I doubt he’d say anything like that now, in the concrete jungle they have built since.