Clean Power Must Offer More Hope to Beat Fossil Fuels
The whole world will benefit if every country industrializes and grows wealthy on the back of renewable energy.
The hard-money allure of fossil-intensive development.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/BloombergYou can regard the depressing denouement of the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan at the weekend as a sort of diplomatic echo of the US election result three weeks earlier.
In the US, progressives found themselves blocked by a surprisingly strong coalition of both traditional Republicans, and a faction of working class and non-White supporters whom they’d regarded, perhaps naively, as their natural allies. At the United Nations climate conference in Baku, rich nations found that efforts to reduce their own emissions and fund climate programs elsewhere in the world bought them little favor with developing countries most at risk of global warming.