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Angelica Ang

China ‘is not just talking, it's walking the walk,’ say green industry leaders on why the eastern superpower is a new leader in climate action

(Credit: GRAHAM UDEN FOR FORTUNE)

For the first time, the U.S. did not send a delegation to COP—the UN conference where countries roll out action plans to mitigate climate change. This comes after Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement in January, calling it ‘unfair’ and ‘one-sided’—and removing the world’s largest historical emitter from the fight against climate change. 

But green industry leaders say this doesn’t mean that climate diplomacy is dead.

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