🧵 1/New data from Carbon Monitor shows that in the first half of 2025, China’s emissions went down 2.7 percent. Coal use fell, solar capacity exploded — with 92 gigawatts installed in a single month. That’s almost as much solar as the U.S. has built in its entire history.
2/ US carbon emissions increased while China’s declined in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2024, pointing to a massive shift in roles between the world’s two biggest climate polluters
3/ China is showing what happens when you back science and scale clean technology. America is showing what happens when you cancel science and double down on fossil fuels