Through Climate Change Denial, We're Ceding Global Leadership To China

Thanks to changes in leadership and priorities, China and America might switch positions on environmental supremacy, suggests professor Daniel Gardner.

 

Thanks to changes in leadership and priorities, China and America might switch positions on environmental supremacy, suggests professor Daniel Gardner.

 

While Americans watch their environmental efforts take steps backwards, China is seizing the opportunity to become a world-leader on climate change. Daniel Gardner, one of the 2016 Carnegie Fellows, is taking a close look at the past policies of China, where that leaves them, and what policies are taking shape.

"Lost on much of the world is that even as a soupy smog blankets its skies, China has been going green and clean with a vengeance in recent years."

Through climate change denial, we're ceding global leadership to China