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American Energy, Chinese Ambition, and Climate Realism - American Affairs Journal

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World leaders recently gathered in Glasgow for “COP26,” the latest UN climate change conference. At the top of the agenda was the need for carbon mitigation actions to achieve the Paris Accord’s goals and to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century. In anticipation of the confer­ence, the Euro­pean Commission released the “European Green Deal,” a package…

Winter 2021 / Volume V, Number 4 W orld leaders recently gathered in Glasgow for “COP26,” the latest UN climate change conference. At the top of the agenda was the need for carbon mitigation actions to achieve the Paris Accord’s goals and to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century. In anticipation of the confer­ence, the Euro­pean Commission released the “European Green Deal,” a package of measures that aims to make the European Union “carbon-neutral” by 2050. The policies the Commission describes as “trans­formational” steps toward a “green industrial revolution” include man­dating more wind

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