US-China Climate Change Policy: Sept. 17, 2008

Please join us for a special presentation:U.S.-China Climate Change Policy

A public symposium at which the central conclusions of a 2-day roundtable discussion on how to strengthen U.S.-China collaboration on climate policy will be presented.

September 17, 2008, 3:00 – 4:30pm
Center for American Progress, Washington, DC

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Introduction by:
Helga Flores Trejo, Executive Director, Heinrich Boell Foundation (Washington, DC)

Moderated by:
Robert M. Sussman, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

Featured speakers:
Christopher Flavin, President of the Worldwatch Institute
Malachy Hargadon, Environment Counselor, Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S.
Frank E. Loy, Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Jiahua Pan, Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the Research Centre for Sustainable Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China
Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society

Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century. Following the release in November 2007 of the final report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, declared "If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment."

The US and China are the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Given their enormous political and economic influence, leadership by US and China will be essential as we move toward agreement on a new global framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Cooperation between the US and China will be increasingly important as we approach the conference of the parties in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009

The Center for American Progress, the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Worldwatch Institute are convening an off-the-record dialogue between climate change and energy experts from China, the European Union, the US Congress, business and NGOs to discuss how best to frame a new global agreement. Key participants will be speaking on a public panel to present the conclusions and insights resulting from the roundtable.

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