COP30 in Belém may well be remembered as the moment that the world accepted the leading role of China in addressing humanity’s most important challenge.
but now the E.U. is beset by internal problems. Its primary industrial economy, Germany, is suffering from Chinese competition, and with the rise of right-wing parties, resistance has emerged to the ambitious climate policies of the European Commission. One symptom of these internal troubles was the E.U.’s embarrassing failure to agree its own mitigation targets before the informal deadline of September 30.
The United States, meanwhile, is trying to force its partner countries to buy more U.S. oil and gas.
I don’t think the other counteies are exactly forcing China and India to produce those items. They do and want to do it very low cost and that’s where the issues come from. China and India want to benefit from the demand and at that point you’ll have to admit to a responsibility in the situation.