The Kigali Amendment is a reminder that, when it comes to climate change, competition — rather than cooperation — between the U.S. and China may be the spur to action.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on a video call with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Beijing, April 16, 2021, during which Xi announced China's decision to ratify the Kigali Amendment. Credit: Yue Yuewei/Xinhua via Getty Images
Ask any expert on U.S.-China relations where opportunities for the two rivals to work together still lie, and they will usually give the same answer: combating the threat of climate change. Yet one recent major development shows how competition between the world’s two largest economies is set to be as much of a factor as cooperation in the fight to temper global warming.
Last month, China formally ratified the Kigali Amendment, an international treaty that aims to phase down the use of hydr
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