How China And The US Stack Up On Greenhouse Emissions, And Energy Solutions For Mitigation.

How China And The US Stack Up On Greenhouse Emissions, And Energy Solutions For Mitigation.

Share to Linkedin In 2016, President Trump came to power in the USA. In what now seems like a perfect irony, 2016 was the hottest year on record for the world since the 1880s, according to NOAA and NASA. In late 2019, Trump formally notified the UN that the US was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change. The Agreement had been signed by 200 nations to cut greenhouse emissions and to help poorer countries manage their mitigation efforts. Ironically, the same year of 2019 turned out to be the second-hottest year on record. In early 2021, President Biden reversed the decision and the US rejoined the Paris Agreement. His envoy, John Kerry, just returned from China with an agreement that they would work together on climate change "with the seriousness and urgency that it demands." Let's look into the history of Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to illuminate the differences in the two countries, and suggest some ways they could work together. History of industrialization: China and the USA are the two biggest GHG polluters, and China was often the scapegoat when the Trump administration tried to justify the Paris withdrawal. By studying the history of each country's GHG