How Europe and middle powers should create a resillience club | Hugo Dixon | TEDxPlaka

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The world’s biggest carbon polluters - China and America - stand in the way of effective action on climate change. They are also the world’s superpowers. It might seem that the rest of the world can do nothing. But that’s not so. They can form a resilience club which strives for more ambitious action - not just on climate but also secure critical minerals and helps countries stand up to intimidation. The European Union would be the core of such a club, as it is the world’s other big economic bloc and is one of the leaders on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It also has a scheme to apply tariffs on dirty imports. The EU now needs to join forces with other middle powers - starting with other advanced democracies such as the UK, Japan and Canada. Together, they then need to reach out to emerging economies. To get them on board, the richer countries will need to mobilise billions of dollar of financing so the poorer ones can expand their economies in a green way. When Donald Trump is no l

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