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Western countries backpedal blustery promises on climate change; US poisons global cooperation by politicizing the issue

2022-08-26 10:56:00       source:Global Times

August 26, 2022


The record heat waves, alongside an energy crisis partly caused by the US-instigated Russia-Ukraine crisis, have forced some European countries to row back on their climate goals. Meanwhile, in the US, one of the world's biggest emitters, climate change has descended to an issue for partisan struggle, and most recently, a topic to demonize China after Beijing suspended communication on this matter with the US after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's provocative visit to the island of Taiwan.

As some parts of the world are still enduring extreme heat waves, Chinese scientists warned that US politicization, flip-flopping on the climate change issue and lack of sincerity fully exposes the US' hypocrisy on climate issues, and risks pushing the already burning planet to a warmer and more catastrophic future. On the contrary, China is sticking to its goal to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, and the current heat wave and drought in this country will not scupper those goals, said scientists.


In the latest case, the city of Copenhagen has given up on a long-term goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2025. "As things look now, we cannot achieve our ambitious climate target," the head of the city municipality's elected technical and environmental committee, Line Barfoed, said to Danish media on Monday.


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