I’m not heaping praise on the US they’re doing ok, I’m asking why there’s so much praise for China, it’s getting a hell of a lot of praise for emissions reductions that are yet to show even a blip on any chart

The IRA, while better than nothing,

First of all “better than nothing” are you joking? now I have to wonder if you are a chinese bot or a partisan hack.

Two years ago, President Joe Biden signed a landmark $391 billion climate solutions investment bill — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This once-in-a-generation legislation has supercharged the process of replacing our deadly fossil fuel economy with clean energy while investing in critical air monitoring technologies, pollution reduction programs, environmental justice priorities, and efficient permitting processes.

https://earthjustice.org/article/the-biggest-climate-spending-bill-ever-just-turned-two-heres-what-it-has-achieved

It was so massive Europe got worried it was going to take all their green tech companies away

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Europe needed an urgent response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act to ensure a future for its industry and welcomed the mandate given to the European Commission to come up with a plan early next year.

So yeah it’s a little bit better than nothing, it was super massive.

And what is this?

is a scheme to protect monopoly profits using “climate change as a profitability/relevance economic engine” for the US market, and the solar/battery/EV tariffs designed to make actual progress as slow as possible.

A majority of emissions come from energy:

China is building coal power plants at record rates while the west closes them down and you’re unhappy that the US and EU are trying to get some manufacturing back? or even retain what little they’ve still got left?

Just to confirm: you’re unhappy countries with a lower co2 output are trying to manufacture goods?

a scheme to protect monopoly profits

what monopoly lol, china has the monopoly on green tech for like a decade now