How China and the US will set the Global Climate Agenda
August 25, 2009 by green team
Filed under Business
In modern times, Energy Efficiency is the 10 ton elephant in the room. Valuable resources are being depleted every day which is pushing the price of energy up and forcing many countries to look at renewable energy. As the two large large superpowers, the US and China will look to implementing such guidelines despite their long history of disagreement on pollution standards especially when such rules deter economic growth.
With a controlled population and ease of rule implmentation, Singapore is uniquely placed to showcase clean energy opportunities and legislation and lead by example.
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How China and the US will set the global climate agenda
McKinsey Quarterly
August 2009
The Brookings Institution’s Ken Lieberthal discusses the opportunities he sees for a China–US clean-energy partnership going into December’s climate change conference.
In December, representatives from nearly 200 nations will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a possible global agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As these meetings draw near, many in the international community are looking to China and the United Sates, the world’s biggest carbon emitters, to help set the agenda for global climate efforts.
In this video interview, Kenneth Lieberthal, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of its John L. Thornton China Center, paints a portrait of the path toward Copenhagen and addresses the difficult questions both China and the United States must face in the coming months. He also outlines the scope of opportunities that cooperation on clean-energy development could create, the remaining roadblocks to compromise, and his hypothesis that a clean-energy partnership will emerge between the two countries before December.
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