US government may be abandoning the global climate fight, but new leaders are filling the void – including China
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meet in Beijing in May 2025. Tingshu Wang/Pool Photo via AP Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences When President Donald Trump announced in early 2025 that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement for the second…