Media coverage of the COP26 climate summit underway in Glasgow has been fixated on China. Fair enough — China emits nearly 30 percent of the world’s carbon, burns nearly half of the world’s coal, and did not even send Xi Jinping to the summit. But while China’s climate policies deserve scrutiny, other countries in the Indo-Pacific have an even worse coal habit. If the Asia-Pacific ex-China were a country, it would be the largest emitter in the world, and both the largest coal producer and consumer. The planet cannot get close to “net zero” emissions without solving the problem of Asia’s coal dependency.  There is still hope, but it won’t be easy or pretty. First, Asian economies need alternative sources of baseline power to compete with coal. That means nuclear and natural gas, as intermittent renewables like solar and wind currently aren’t viable on their own. Second, the cost of renewables needs to fall far enough for Asia’s poorer economies to want to shu