Kelly Sims Gallagher

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Flooding in Beijing, August 2023. Tingshu Wang / Reuters.

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After the U.S. climate envoy John Kerry traveled to Beijing last month for three days of talks with Chinese leaders, he expressed cautious optimism. The trip yielded no new agreements, but the mere fact that it took place, Kerry argued, was a step forward. His verdict underscored just how much the space for cooperation between the United States and China has shrunk, even on a matter as urgent as climate change.

Recent times have not been kind to those hoping for more U.S.-Chinese climate action. As heat, floods, drought, and rising sea levels wallop the globe, the leaders of the world’s two largest economies are barely talking to each other.…  Seguir leyendo »

A Turkana herdboy near wind turbines in Loiyangalani district, Kenya, September 2018. Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

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In his speech to the UN General Assembly in September 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to double U.S. aid to developing nations for dealing with climate change to $11.4 billion per year by 2024. Chinese President Xi Jinping made a similar promise about green and low-carbon energy. More than a year later, however, neither leader has followed through: the U.S. Congress has yet to appropriate any additional climate-related funds for developing countries, and China has little to show for its clean energy push in poor countries. In fact, China’s oil-related financing and investments in the Belt and Road Initiative, its massive infrastructure investment scheme, more than doubled in 2021 from the previous year, while its green energy investments stayed about the same, according to analysts at Fudan University.…  Seguir leyendo »