Climate Change, Energy and Asian Geopolitics

• Main Author: Umbach, Frank
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: East Asia and Asia Pacific; Energy Security
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83594; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42708
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

President Trump’s declaration to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change may contribute to a self-isolation and a geopolitical weakening of the US. While China has cleverly used this opportunity, its energy-climate policies are much more ambivalent than its impressive investments into re...