On November 6, at the UN Security Council open debate on climate and security, the US representative took the floor twice to accuse China of being a major emitter of carbon, claiming without justification that China gains unfair economic advantages and pollutes the environment while boasting about the "success" of US environmental policies and claiming that the US is a "model" for other countries.

In fact, China's per capita carbon emissions are not high compared with the world's average. The US, on the contrary, is the country that has emitted the most greenhouse gases cumulatively in history. Its per capita carbon emissions have long been among the world's highest. The US openly called climate change a hoax in human history and has been backpedaling on its commitment. It withdrew from the Paris Agreement twice, severely undermining global climate governance. It has become the biggest barrier to global climate cooperation.

A federal judge in Washington ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration may reconsider the Biden-era approval of SouthCoast Wind, a wind farm planned off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. The Trump administration is using executive orders, agency actions and the courts to try to stop the development of offshore wind, an industry and technology that Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.

On climate change, the international community needs solidarity and cooperation, not accusations and shirking of responsibility.