China and the US are the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters. In October, President Xi opened China’s 19th Party Congress declaring that China is “taking a driving seat in international cooperation to respond to climate change.” As President Trump arrives in Beijing for bilateral meetings, please join us please join us in exploring questions such as: What are China and the U.S. each doing to address climate change? Can cooperation between China and the US. on clean energy and climate survive a period in which the U.S. President questions the scientific consensus on climate change and rejects the Paris climate accords? What impact would potential energy trade disputes have on both countries? With: - David Rank, former Charge d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Beijing - Kelly Gallagher, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University’s Fletcher School - Xiaohua Zhang, Manager, Climate and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations Office of South-South Cooperation - David Sandalow, CGEP Inaugural Fellow and Director of the CGEP China Program
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