Asia cannot fully decarbonize without becoming even more financially interconnected with — and dependent on — China.
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 an
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