It will be a terrible shame if China is able to skirt its international responsibilities at the moment the world’s biggest polluter needs to change its ways, writes Kelsey Callahan. The world must demand that China pay into the climate support fund.
China's President Xi Jinping has pledged the world's top emitter will reach carbon-neutrality by 2060.Conference in Egypt ended with an agreement in which wealthier countries, including the United States, would pay into a"loss and damage" fund to support less wealthy nations that are being battered by the effects of climate change. Notably, however, the world’s second-largest economy, China, has been able to avoid having to pay into the fund.
China’s negative impact on global climate policy cannot be overstated. One need only look to Africa, where Chinese investment through the Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, is driven by debt-trap diplomacy. A prime example of China’s recklessness can be found in Kenya, where recently revealed details of ashow that the $4.7 billion railway project was over budget at Kenya's expense. Judges ultimately declared the deal illegal for not being in alignment with Kenyan procurement laws.
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