Guide to China’s Climate Policy 2022 - a podcast by National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Summer 2022 was hot! On June 25, the temperature in Hebei province reached 111.6°, breaking an all-time record. A few weeks later, the temperature in Shanghai hit 105.6°, the highest ever recorded there. On July 19, weather stations in the United Kingdom recorded temperatures above 104° for the first time in history; in the United States, at least 43 locations broke or tied their records for the hottest July ever. The temperature in western Iran reached 128.5° on August 9, the highest August temperature ever recorded in Asia. Increasingly severe and frequent storms, droughts, and floods lie ahead, and seas are rising. As the world’s leading emitter of heat-trapping gases by a wide margin, there is no solution to climate change without China.

In an interview conducted on February 3, 2023, Guide to China’s Climate Policy 2022 co-authors David Sandalow and Edmund Downie discuss China’s role in facing the global challenge presented by climate change with Angel Hsu.

0:00-1:14 Introductions 

1:14-9:38 China’s climate background and efforts

9:38-20:24 China’s climate market

20:24-24:48 What will it take to lower coal consumption?

24:48- U.S.-China climate cooperation

About the speakers: https://www.ncuscr.org/event/guide-to-chinas-climate-policy-2022/

Read the transcript to this conversation 

Follow David Sandalow on Twitter: @dsandalow

Follow Edmund Downie on Twitter: @ned_downie

Follow Angel Hsu on Twitter: @ecoangelhsu

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