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Energy Policy Seminar: Jiaqi Lu on "Cultivating Climate: US-China Relations and Global Climate Cooperation"

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Join us for the next Energy Policy Seminar of the 2021 Fall Semester featuring Jiaqi Lu, Predoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School. Lu will present "Cultivating Climate: US-China Relations and Global Climate Cooperation." HKS Professor Henry Lee will moderate the discussion and Q&A.

Attendance: This event is open to the public and hosted on Zoom. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch via the EPSS homepage.

Date: Time: - Location: Online
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Abstract

A global-scale climate catastrophe should provide sufficient incentive for cooperation between great powers. Drawing evidence from the trajectories of US-China relations, Lu examines China's role in the global climate governance from a geopolitical perspective. For China, striking a climate deal helped usher in a new area of cooperation to avoid the dangerous decoupling and potential conflict with the United States. Lu will also discuss policy implications of great power competition on the future of global climate governance.

Speaker

Jiaqi (Jackie) Lu is a predoctoral research fellow in the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program. He is also Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies (joint Ph.D. program) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include the political economy of energy transitions and climate change, as well as the intersection of governance and technology development. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Nature Geoscience, Energy Policy, and Environmental Research Letters.  Before returning to academia, he spent over three years as a research analyst at the Brookings Institution.

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