Climate Technology and Competition

February 28, 2024 – 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, Auditorium 201 -320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

Joshua Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration

Historically, the United States and China have led the world in global carbon emissions. Since 2010, China and the United States have also been the world’s leading economies. Given their shared responsibility for contributing to climate change, and their shared means for mitigating its effects, cooperation between the US and China is more important today than it has been in a generation. However, these global powers are also divided over a host of thorny security, humanitarian, diplomatic, and economic issues. This talk will explore the possibilities for Sino-American cooperation in the fight against climate change. After surveying the many stumbling blocks on the road to progress, we will emphasize the many points of agreement between these great powers and show how they can achieve their shared interests.