This week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund; Alex Wang, a UCLA law professor who specializes in China climate and environmental law; and Deborah Seligsohn, a political scientist at Villanova University who served as the Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. This episode was taped live on Thursday, April 20, as a webinar from The China Project.
5:24 – Taking stock: Where have we come since the first Earth Day in 1970?
14:24 – Is the Inflation Reduction Act an unalloyed good for the environment and climate?
17:17 – The good and the bad of China’s recent record on climate
20:45 – The unmet need for climate finance globally, and what China’s PbOC is doing right
27:54 – Should we roll our eyes when China speaks of “ecological civilization”?
31:57 – Embracing the JEDI approach in addressing climate change
35:30 – Can the U.S. and China harness competition to drive better climate outcomes?
39:54 – Why pushing each other won’t work, and cooperation is still needed
45:15 – Addressing hard-to-abate sectors like agrifood
50:30 – Balancing cooperation and competition between the U.S. and China on climate
A complete transcript of this episode is available at TheChinaProject.com.
