Atoning for Climate Sins

Much to the surprise of climate observers worldwide, China and the United States issued a state-ment announcing to strengthen cooperation to tackle climate change at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the UK, on November 11. It's an especially bold statement on the part of the U.S., considering that ever since the Donald Trump administration, the of-ficial American position had bordered on the mockery of almost any carbon emission reduction talk.