Climate Politics
China and India Signal a Decade of Cautious Climate Action
Are two of the world’s biggest polluters doing enough to help the world avoid catastrophic climate change? Lili Pike and Akshat Rathi discuss.
Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, right, and Xi Jinping, China's president, attend a meeting in 2014.
Photographer: Graham CrouchIn the past month, we've seen two major plans from two of the world's biggest polluters. In March, China approved its 15th five-year plan, which gave us a clearer sense of how the government makes progress on its climate goals.
A few weeks after that, India published its climate plan for 2035. This week on Zero, Bloomberg Green’s Lili Pike and Akshat Rathi discuss those climate plans, and whether they’re ambitious enough for the current moment.