Special climate envoy John Kerry has announced the Biden administration’s latest climate pledge—to stop building new coal plants and shut down existing ones.
China and the United States are the No. 1 and No. 2 sources of greenhouse gas emissions, making them critical players in any international climate negotiations.
Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone is former senior adviser to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Under the Trump administration, Rabbi Lightstone was one of the architects of the Abraham Accords, a landmark peace agreement between Israel and several of its Arab neighbors.
There’s a lot on the plate that the China wants, and the United States seems willing to give up in exchange of getting China board with the climate change agenda.
John Kerry just came back from China. He’s now saying that climate change cooperation could redefine US-China ties. Would this actually fix anything, or would it disable the US for the benefit of the CCP? Here’s Kelly Sloan, Senior Fellow in Energy and Environment at the Centennial Institute, about this.