A flood of green tech from China is upending global climate politics

BELÉM, BRAZIL: As the United States torpedoes climate action and Europe struggles to realise its green ambitions, a surprising shift is taking hold in many large, fast-growing economies where a majority of the world’s people live.

Countries like Brazil, India, and Vietnam are rapidly expanding solar and wind power. Poorer countries like Ethiopia and Nepal are leapfrogging over gasoline-burning cars to battery-powered ones. Nigeria, a petrostate, plans to build its first solar-panel manufacturing plant. Morocco is creating a battery hub to supply…