About
Dan Guttman, visiting senior fellow at the Tsinghua University Center for U.S.-China Relations, visiting professor at the Peking University School of Law, fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Center for the Study of American Government, and fellow at the University of California-Santa Barbara Bren School Center for Sustainability and Governance, will discuss recent commitments by the United States and China to domestic greenhouse gas reductions, along with China’s commitments to a 2020 coal cap and a 2030 20-percent renewable energy target. Guttman will explain how to interpret these commitments, given that the vernacular of Chinese governance differs from that of U.S. governance. In addition, he will discuss what can be learned about the practical meaning of mutual domestic environmental commitments on which both countries—and the world—may well now rely.
This talk is part of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the University Program in Environmental Policy seminar series featuring leading experts discussing a variety of pressing environmentally focused topics.