"When there's a vacuum, something or someone will fill it. In the climate leadership space, we now see many countries from the Global South stepping up,"
"Climate diplomacy is now being pushed very much by the Chinese,"
"(China) is not just talking, it's walking the walk,"
"(This shows that) there are so many policy levers that you can pull, and often it's the local municipal governments who have the more direct levers,"
The United States did not send a delegation to COP following withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, removing the world's largest historical emitter from international climate talks. Green industry leaders report that climate diplomacy continues as countries from the Global South, notably China, step into leadership roles and exhibit substantial COP presences. China is advancing the global energy transition by expanding production and reducing renewable costs, dominating solar panel, wind turbine, battery cell, and rare earth metal supply chains. U.S. influence endures via state and local representatives, with municipal governments retaining direct policy levers for climate action.
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