China is pretty serious about getting their renewables going, mostly for energy independance reasons. I think they can be convinced to cooperate with future climate goals if enough care is taken.
Of course, if they don’t cooperate, then yes, we need to move along without them.
Fair enough, it would be good for their energy independence but not sure they would want to stick to a timeline. Even if they did, not sure they would agree to an enforcement mechanism given they see themselves as a superpower (which they are) and wouldn’t want to be told what to do by the EU (not really a superpower even if on paper it could be) if any targets slipped.
Even so, I hope they can come to a deal. It would help both sides I think even if working with the Chinese will be a tricky business given their less than stellar human rights practices
China is also starting to see adverse effects from climate change and they identified renewable energies as key technologies of the 21. century. I think China will be interested in telling other countries to shift to renewables, while also selling them the technologies for it.
So China does have an interest to further these topics together with the EU. And building international structures that exclude the US is increasing Chinese soft power, where the US is dismantling its own soft power from the inside.
China is pretty serious about getting their renewables going, mostly for energy independance reasons. I think they can be convinced to cooperate with future climate goals if enough care is taken.
Of course, if they don’t cooperate, then yes, we need to move along without them.
Fair enough, it would be good for their energy independence but not sure they would want to stick to a timeline. Even if they did, not sure they would agree to an enforcement mechanism given they see themselves as a superpower (which they are) and wouldn’t want to be told what to do by the EU (not really a superpower even if on paper it could be) if any targets slipped.
Even so, I hope they can come to a deal. It would help both sides I think even if working with the Chinese will be a tricky business given their less than stellar human rights practices
China is also starting to see adverse effects from climate change and they identified renewable energies as key technologies of the 21. century. I think China will be interested in telling other countries to shift to renewables, while also selling them the technologies for it.
So China does have an interest to further these topics together with the EU. And building international structures that exclude the US is increasing Chinese soft power, where the US is dismantling its own soft power from the inside.