Low-Carbon Development in the United States and China
The Brookings Institution, February 2, 2012
Low-Carbon Development in China’s 11th Five-Year Plan(2.28MB)
China-US Factsheet(129.75kb)
Qi Ye, CPI Beijing
On February 2, the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted a discussion on low-carbon development and clean energy in the United States and China. Qi Ye of the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Tsinghua University presented the results of the CPI’s second “Annual Review of Low-Carbon Development in China.” Ye also discussed China’s past experience with facilitating low-carbon development and its prospects for doing the same in the future. Brookings Senior Fellow Mark Muro discussed recent developments in the clean energy and low-carbon economy of the U.S., and Casey Delhotal of the U.S. Department of Energy addressed key areas for U.S.-China cooperation on clean energy. Senior Fellow Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center, provided introductory remarks and moderated the discussion.