China, in the middle term, would lobby even some sort of carbon tax on the power sourced from conventional fuel. They know that they have more capital to invest in renewables than the other Asian manufacturers. Expect this in the next 3-5 years. This climate change war will definitely have a big element of economic infighting among nations.
Paris deal in 2015 was considered the turning point in agreements on climate change mitigation, where activists and governments came to same page. There too stage was set to blame everything on India, and they blamed India quite a bit. Modi govt was just elected, and didn't have time to understand the nuances.
Even though India was blamed, India is only country that worked on paris climate agreement and aced it with real action on the ground. No other major country did. because of this whenever activists tried to blame India, they started to look stupid since India have metrics to prove that the country has done quite a bit.
At the beginning of this Glasglow meet, India has clearly stated that we will target Net-Zero by 2070. which means India has already declared that we are not abandoning coal in medium term. In return India asked for access to nuclear tech and at least 100 billion $ annual financial commitment to poor countries from rich countries. activist knew about this too.
China has funded an grouping of it's own called G77 + 1(china), these are mostly poor countries which need chinese loans. these 77 countries will vote the way china wants them to vote.
all this was known to everybody interested in this conference for two weeks.
Now here's where hypocrisy comes in, was watching the live proceedings and SM narratives side by side. narrative against India and china started emerging on SM in the final 3 hours, even before alok sharma (brit guy, president of COP26) and John Kerry even met with Indian delegation and chinese delegation on the floor. on the floor this alok sharma was talking normally with Indian delegation minutes before, but when he came on stage he acted (for cameras) as if it was a last minute change.
Theatrics. It was all drama, to appease their own local constituencies.
As mentioned in earlier post, India forwarded the amendment to change the language to "Phase down" and not "Phase out" coal.
Fact is Gora instinct to view india as an easy target has not gone away. surprising bit is the same activist crowd which blames india hardly utter anything on China.
As expected Activists are hung up on 1.5 deg. C. they don't have a clue how real world works. True to their origins since they operate on binary logic, this is the message they are focussing on :
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