Asia Society and Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Asia Society outline a way forward. Excerpts follow.
The challenge of global climate change is unprecedented in world history. The fact that a molecule of carbon dioxide emitted in the U.S. is just as harmful to Chinese as one emitted in China is to Americans—or, indeed, to anyone on our planet—means that no human being is exempt from our inescapable commons. This new reality begs a completely new set of global responses. One of the most critical responses must come from the U.S. and China. For without the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world forging a new and extensive collaborative relationship, this global problem will remain intractable and unsolvable.
While a Sino-U.S. bilateral effort is a critical element in any overall global climate strategy, it is not an alternative to the multilateral U.N. climate change process. Collaboration between the U.S. and China will be crucial both to achieving significant greenhouse gas reductions in both countries, and to creating the joint momentum that will be required for a larger multilateral solution to this collective challenge. Read the report.
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