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Blaming China for the climate crisis is shameful nonsense
The West has followed a Cold War agenda of demonising the world’s most populous country, when in fact it is China that emits less per-person than the US and many of its other critics, while leading the way in renewable energy, reforestation and electric vehicles, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
A couple wearing face masks holds their dogs as they pose for a selfie with ginkgo trees whose leaves have turned yellow along a street in the embassy district in Beijing this week
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IN the run-up to the Cop26 UN Climate Change Conference, currently taking place in Glasgow, politicians and media in the West conducted a coordinated and insistent campaign to shift responsibility for the climate crisis on to China.
US President Joe Biden claimed in his closing statement to the G20 summit, the day before the start of Cop26, that China “basically didn’t show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change.” He further stated that meaningful progress on climate change negotiations is “going to require us to continue to focus on what China’s not doing.”
Biden specifically criticised Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin for not attending the G20 summit in person, although he failed to mention that they did attend via video link. Several commentators on social media have noted that attending a climate change conference via Zoom produces significantly less emissions than arriving in a private jet and travelling round Glasgow in an 85-car motorcade, which is what Biden did at Cop26.
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