"When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president, he quickly signed an executive order triggering the process to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement the global pact aimed at limiting global warming and slowing climate change. Since then, the US administration has reversed key domestic and international climate measures, cutting clean energy programs, and scrapping emissions regulations. Trump's actions mark a clear retreat from the US's previous international climate engagement."
"China may not seem the obvious candidate to assume the climate leadership mantle. It still builds highly polluting coal-fired power plants to meet growing energy demand for power. But the Asian superpower has also emerged as a clean energy giant. While China is leading the charge on renewables, it is also still heavily dependent on coalImage: Andy Wong/AP Photo/picture alliance It is "producing the majority of the clean tech products the world needs to decarbonize," said Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the US-based Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). "Oversimplifying Beijing as a climate laggard could mean realizing too late that Chinese companies have already far outpaced their Western counterparts in the clean tech sector," he told DW."
Donald Trump's executive order set in motion US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and led to reversal of domestic and international climate policies, including cuts to clean energy programs and emissions regulations. The US had been instrumental in brokering the Paris deal under Barack Obama, and subsequent Biden legislation aimed to boost green energy and cut emissions domestically. The US retreat opened space for other nations to assume greater climate influence, with attention turning to China. China remains the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and continues to build coal-fired power, yet it also dominates clean-technology manufacturing, solar panel production, electric vehicles, and large clean-technology investment.
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