check the final sentence:
“China is still the world’s largest consumer of coal, and its total carbon emissions increased last year, despite a pledge to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into renewable energy in the coming years.”
from Foreign Policy bios of the writers:
Colum Lynch: Before coming to FP, Lynch worked for more than a decade for the Washington Post. He previously reported for the Boston Globe. Lynch has an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Robbie Gramer: Before he joined FP in 2016, he managed the NATO portfolio at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, for three years. He’s a graduate of American University, where he studied international relations and European affairs.
swamp creatures.
Among other reasons, this is why the Paris Climate Accord was a joke and Trump was right to repudiate it (it was only signed by Obama, not consented to by Senate, so it was illegal in any event).
China got a pass on climate emission and in fact can continue to increase them while the U.S. has to reduce its emissions.
Another treason committed by Obama.