A Vital Year Ahead for U.S.-China Climate Engagement - The Wire
A Vital Year Ahead for U.S.-China Climate Engagement - The Wire China
As the head of the U.S.-China Business Council in Beijing, Anne Stevenson-Yang was one of the first Westerners to advocate for China's inclusion in the global trading system, and she personally benefited from China's opening and courtship of foreign investment. But, as she recounts in her new book, after watching China's reaction to the global financial crisis, she was also one of the first Westerners to call out China's transformational change for being a facade.
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Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates.
Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.
The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21).
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