cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65282199
French Environment Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher will fly to China on Wednesday night with hopes of moving the EU and China closer on international climate action, as the US refuses to join the global effort.
Pannier-Runacher wants to see France and China publicly reaffirm their commitment to the deal that was sealed in the French capital in 2015 while she is in Beijing to prepare the ground for an EU-China summit in July.
America will just be sitting in their corner with a giant coal rolling diesel pickup while everyone else silently rolls into the future (unless they are going below 25km/h, then a pedestrian safe hum will be emitted into the future).
I’m proud of France. They’ve really stepped up to fill America’s place and avoid a power vacuum.
