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April 4, 2023

Book Launch: Cooperating for the Climate

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Join us for a discussion of the timely new book Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector (2023). Drawing on decades of work in clean energy technology and climate policy and hundreds of interviews with policymakers, companies, and researchers, author Joanna Lewis provides a clear and thorough account of the motivations, science, and politics behind international clean energy technology collaboration—and an in-depth look at why different clean energy partnerships result in different political and technological outcomes. At this in-person event, Lewis will present the findings of her book followed by a panel discussion about China’s trajectory, the U.S.-China relationship, and the implications for global governance.

This event is co-sponsored by the Mortara Center for International Studies; Science, Technology and International Affairs Program; Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues; Earth Commons Institute; and Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University.

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Joanna Lewis is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has two decades of experience working on international climate and clean energy policy with a focus on China. At Georgetown she runs the Clean Energy and Climate Research Group and leads several dialogues facilitating U.S.-China climate change engagement. Lewis is also a faculty affiliate in the China Energy Group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Melanie Hart is the China policy coordinator for Undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez at the U.S. Department of State. Hart has worked on Chinese domestic and foreign policy issues for nearly two decades. Most recently, Hart was a senior fellow and director for China policy at the Center for American Progress and led the center’s work on China and U.S.-China relations. She focused on developing a comprehensive U.S. strategy toward China, analyzing the domestic political factors driving Chinese foreign policy in the Xi Jinping era, tracking Chinese industrial policy in the energy and information technology sectors, and assessing China’s intentions toward the global order.

Jonas Nahm is an assistant professor of energy, resources, and environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. His research examines the intersection of climate policy, environmental politics, and economic and industrial policy. He focuses in particular on examining policy strategies that allow states (and businesses) to achieve both environmental and economic objectives through the creation of green sources growth. In addition to his work on renewable energy industries, he has ongoing research projects on the politics of greening the global auto sector, the determinants of national climate policies, and the political economy of green industrial policy.

Christina Larson (moderator) is an award-winning foreign correspondent and science and technology journalist. She focuses on technology in China and on global environmental issues. Now global science and environment correspondent for the Associated Press, she is based in Washington, DC, and reports from the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Previously she lived in Beijing for seven years (2011-2018) as a contributing China correspondent for Science magazine, China technology reporter for Bloomberg, and a freelance magazine writer. She has written about everything from animal intelligence to artificial intelligence—and using science to solve historical mysteries.