Decoding China’s Climate Agenda

China plays a pivotal role in the international community’s fight against climate change. However, understanding which officials and departments drive China’s ambition, and how climate is prioritized in China’s bureaucracy, are crucial to benchmarking China’s climate progress. A new report, Climate Change in China’s Governance: Agenda, Agents, and International Collaboration, by Guoguang Wu, Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s (ASPI) Center for China Analysis (CCA) explores these questions.

Please join us for this important discussion moderated by Somini Sengupta from the New York Times where Guoguang Wu, CCA Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics; Li Shuo, Director of the ASPI China Climate Hub; and Deborah Seligsohn, Senior Associate with the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, discuss the conclusions from the report, China’s domestic climate agenda, its role in international climate diplomacy, and U.S.-China bilateral climate diplomacy. Deepali Khanna, Vice President, Asia Regional Office, Rockefeller Foundation, will give opening remarks.