If global climate change is a problem, you can't just have some countries deindustrializing and reducing CO2 while others go full bore on scale manufacturing with any form of cheap energy including coal being used.
Meanwhile they are also rapidly going green by adopting this tech domestically since it's highly price competitive due to their manufacturing investments. They also invested heavily in Nuclear (which the government there openly welcomed).
Same thing applies to those up and coming countries: they immediately have more efficient technologies.
Well... that's what we did in the Industrial Revolution too. Only the countries were reversed.
Buy all the things from me, don't worry about my dirty powered factories.
Government: "We need to sacrifice"
Populists: "No one will take/tax our gas-guzzling trucks and our beef! Make this country great again!"
Voters: "Fuck off government, put the populists in power instead!"