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The Washington PostDemocracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion One way to get China to clean up faster: build a ‘climate club’

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April 13, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
Smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in China's Shanxi Province. (Sam Mcneil/AP)
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The world needs a climate club.

Next year will mark a decade since diplomats gathered in Paris, promising to cut the greenhouse gas emissions relentlessly warming the atmosphere. The resulting national policies bent the emissions curve substantially — but the trend is still up. Global carbon dioxide emissions last year were more than 7 percent higher than in 2015.