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Here's what's important to note: In the United States, the

Dec. 7, 2018 by Ella Pickett

Here's what's important to note: In the United States, the most recent data available puts China on pace to exceed the U.S. in terms of its carbon reduction by 2025, which would be more than doubling the US' emissions. China is also increasing its use of nuclear power, which is expected to increase by around 40 percent.

But all this is to say that the world's nuclear power plants are getting a little bit old. In China, nuclear power is on track to double in ten years, and by 2050 it will account for about one-third of all emissions. That's not to say that China has already had great energy use — it just added its nuclear power plants a few years ago.

But that's where there's more of an impact from the government. The United States, by comparison, has seen a lot of the slowest growth in energy use in a generation. And that's reflected in many of the countries that have been hit hardest, particularly in Asia Pacific.

That leads us to the big question of why the United States has not been doing much about its clean energy needs.

As an example, consider the world's largest electricity-storage system. In the past year, around half of all U.S. electricity was generated from renewable sources, and this has meant that renewable energy use has decreased over the past five years. The last major US-led clean energy policy change, which came in 2010, was the Clean Power Plan, which put in place a cap on the amount of carbon emissions from electricity generation. And by 2013, the United States and many other developed nations were in agreement on a new cap: By 2015, a plan was in place to limit carbon emissions from power plants by 50 percent of the world's electricity generation by 2020, which would have eliminated emissions of around one-third of the global average.

The United States has been struggling recently with its clean energy needs. In recent years, the Clean Power Plan has led to massive power plant reductions and some of the biggest cuts in government spending. But the U.S. has been able to build up some of its clean energy infrastructure, including solar panels.

But the United States has also struggled to build up its clean energy infrastructure.

So it's not just renewable energy that's causing the decline in emissions. It's a lot of the government's own energy policy. And those are some of the factors that are driving the decline.

And then there are the other issues.