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Copenhagen Countdown: China’s Climate Change Position

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Let me admit what many of you have already concluded: I’m confused.  After a week of immersion in the US-China climate change dynamic, I feel less certain about where all this is heading than before.  With little more than six months to go before the world’s climate change negotiators meet in Copenhagen, it make sense [...]

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Tags: NDRC · US-China relations · Xie Zhenhua · Zhang Guobao · carbon emissions · climate change

Climate Change: China’s Argument Du Jour

March 18th, 2009 · 14 Comments

China’s public pronouncements on its Copenhagen position are becoming increasingly clumsy and shrill.  I suspect that the Obama victory, the speed with which his administration has moved to engage China on climate change issues, the unified position of the US and Annex 1 countries that China needs to do more, and the crumbling of the [...]

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Tags: Li Gao · US-China relations · Xie Zhenhua · carbon emissions · climate change