UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies | Green politics
The UK hopes to form a new global axis in favor of climate work alongside China and a group of developing countries, to make up for the impact of Donald Trump Abandoning green policies And its sharp exit towards the mineral climate countries such as Russia and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ed Miliband, the UK and Safi Energy Secretary, arrived in Beijing on Friday for three days of talks with senior Chinese officials, including discussions on green technology supply chains, coal and critical metals needed for clean energy. Green economy in the United Kingdom It grows three times faster than the rest of the economyBut accessing components and materials will be very important until it continues.
He said: “We can only remain future generations safe from climate change if all the main gates are working. It is simply an act of neglect of the generations today and the future for not engaging China About how it can play its role in taking climate action. “
Writing in the guardianHe added: “Climate work at home without paying other countries to do their fair share will not protect the current and future generations. We will protect our farmers, retirees and children only if we get other countries in the world to play their role.”
China face a A barrage of definitions from Trump on its exports to the United StatesAnd the possibility that The European Union will start imposing a green tariff on the imports of Chinese good carbonLike steel.
The world’s largest greenhouse emitter in the world benefits the record Electric car exports, solar panels and other low carbon goods. But it is still It relies heavily on coalAnd despite the bullish march of its emissions It seems that it is temporarily stoppedWhether China reduces its carbon production or returns to fossil fuels, it may largely depend on the government’s response to Trump’s trade war.
Many experts believe that the only possibility to avoid climate collapse is for China, the European Union, the United Kingdom and other major economies that constitute a pro -climate bloc alongside weak developing countries, to counter the weight of the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Petrostatis for the constant expansion of fossil fuels.
Miliband’s visit to Beijing is the first by the UK Energy Minister in eight years. He visited India last month on a similar mission, and traveled to Brazil last year, in addition to holding meetings with many messengers from developing countries in COP29 climate summit Last November.
“It is really important to see this happens – there is no way to meet the Paris Agreement without China. China has made it clear that it is ready to be more hiding in these issues, to increase climate work. We see openness in China to the band with Europe, Canada and the United Kingdom on climate issues,” said Catherine Abro, director of the International Climate Policy Center.
But the prospects for agreeing on the acute emissions discounts required globally to reduce the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius are higher than pre -industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement, increasingly. Brazil will host the United Nations Climate Summit this year, COP30In the Amazon in November amid the worst geopolitical tensions in decades, many governments are preparing to pour money in reinforcing.
Only a few countries, including the United Kingdom, have so far presented their national plans on emissions discounts for the next contract as required under the Paris 2015 agreement, though The deadline passes last month. China is unlikely to produce its plan even closer to the COP30 conference, and it will be strongly monitored, because its current goals of carbon are very weak so that it cannot remain within the 1.5C limit.
Miliband may find that he needs to adapt his plans for a prosperous green economy in the United Kingdom in the face of the Chinese economic domination of the low -carbon technology market, according to Lee Shu, Director of the Chinese Climate Center at the Asian Association Policy Institute.
“We need to be honest about the economic reality,” he said. “All countries in the world hope to obtain a share of green pie. But this is not in line with the economic reality … they cannot overcome China.”
