With or without the cooperation of the US government, nations around the world have begun to take collective action against climate change. Could a new cap-and-trade market in China set a global example? The forecast for US cooperation on global climate policy doesn’t look good. President-elect Donald Trump has said that the US would drop out of the Paris Agreement and he called global warming a “hoax” in 2014 during an extremely cold winter. The scientific community tends to disagree with Trump and 2016 is projected to be the hottest on record. China is the world’s heaviest emitter of greenhouse gases, and after an ongoing public health crisis resulting from a coal-fueled … read more

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