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China now produces three quarters of the world's supply in solar energy systems
The US and China have lagged behind in global climate negotiations. Even when the US signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, its ratification was unanimously rejected by the country's Senate. Since then, the US position has vacillated with Democrats opting for greater climate action and Republicans opposing it. Donald Trump's administration, for example, pulled out of the Paris Agreement after its successful negotiation with US support under Barack Obama.
China, however, clearly appreciated the future. It adopted the Kyoto Protocol and began a policy movement of critical importance. In 1998, the National Climate Change Coordinating Group was moved into the then State Planning and Development Commission. In 2001, the 10th five-year plan recognised climate change and set the first renewable energy targets.
In the course of these actions over 20 years, China has built a formidable manufacturing capacity in the renewable energy domain, now producing three-quarters of the world's supply in solar energyIn contrast the US, mainly due to the stance of Republican administrations on climate change, has been coming second.
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