How can the world engage with China to strengthen global environmental governance?

Global environmental action is under serious threat, driven in part by Donald Trump’s renewed anti-climate agenda, including withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement.

At the same time, escalating geopolitical tensions are pulling governments’ attention away from the climate crisis and toward security, trade and industrial competition. In this unsettled landscape, China is increasingly stepping in to a more influential role in global environmental governance.

China, the world’s second largest economy, is a key player in multilateral institutions and the leading producer of clean technologies. As such it will inevitably be drawn in to the vacuum of climate and environmental leadership in some shape or form.

But what might that look like? And what does it mean for the rest of the world?

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