"When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president, he quickly signed an executive order triggering the process to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement the global pact aimed at limiting global warming and slowing climate change. Since then, the US administration has reversed key domestic and international climate measures, cutting clean energy programs, and scrapping emissions regulations. Trump's actions mark a clear retreat from the US's previous international climate engagement."
"But the Asian superpower has also emerged as a clean energy giant. While China is leading the charge on renewables, it is also still heavily dependent on coalImage: Andy Wong/AP Photo/picture alliance It is "producing the majority of the clean tech products the world needs to decarbonize," said Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the US-based Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)."
Donald Trump's executive order initiated US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and triggered a rollback of domestic and international climate measures, cutting clean energy programs and scrapping emissions regulations. The US shifted away from prior international climate engagement despite earlier leadership in brokering the Paris deal under Barack Obama and later domestic legislative efforts under Joe Biden. The US retreat created space for other countries to assume climate leadership, with attention turning to China. China remains the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter and continues to build coal-fired power plants, but it has become a dominant clean energy manufacturer, producing most solar panels, leading EV and storage markets, and investing heavily in clean technology.
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