Beijing Puts Ball Back in Washington’s Court on Climate Change - The New York Times

Beijing Puts Ball Back in Washington’s Court on Climate Change - The New York Times “The ironies are rich,” said David Sandalow, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and a former senior official in the Obama administration. “Carbon emissions trading is an American idea. Now it’s an American export. The Europeans have moved forward in implementing it. Now the Chinese are embracing it on a large scale.” But news of China’s cap-and-trade policy did not seem to change the views of a number of Republican presidential candidates.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/asia/beijing-puts-ball-back-in-washingtons-court-on-climate-change.html?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ac792623d4-Sinocism09_29_159_29_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-ac792623d4-29615013&mc_cid=ac792623d4&mc_eid=5935182a65&_r=0