Melbourne, Australia-The next U.S. administration will have to ensure the country is not left behind in the race to embrace clean energy to help limit the effects of climate change, the United Nations' top climate official said Oct. 24. Responding to a question on the absence of climate change from the U.S. presidential debates, after addressing the Lowy Institute in Sydney, U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said she was "increasingly confounded by the U.S." "Here is the part that at times most puzzles me: Why would the U.S., having the technology capacity that it has, why would it want to allow China to be the first in renewable energy? Because we all know we are going to renewable energy, we all know that. So why would it allow China to have that advantage?"
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