Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund; Alex Wang, a UCLA law professor who specializes in China climate and environmental law; and Deborah Seligsohn, a political scientist at Villanova University who served as the Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. This episode was taped live on Thursday, April 20, as a webinar from The China Project.
5:24 – Taking stock: Where have we come since the first Earth Day in 1970?
14:24 – Is the Inflation Reduction Act an unalloyed good for the environment and climate?
17:17 – The good and the bad of China’s recent record on climate
20:45 – The unmet need for climate finance globally, and what China’s PbOC is doing right
27:54 – Should we roll our eyes when China speaks of “ecological civilization”?
31:57 – Embracing the JEDI approach in addressing climate change
35:30 – Can the U.S. and China harness competition to drive better climate outcomes?
39:54 – Why pushing each other won’t work, and cooperation is still needed
45:15 – Addressing hard-to-abate sectors like agrifood
50:30 – Balancing cooperation and competition between the U.S. and China on climate
A complete transcript of this episode is available at TheChinaProject.com.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with the China Project. |
| 0:16.1 | Subscribe to access from the China Project to get access, access to not only our great daily newsletter, |
| 0:22.0 | but to all of the original writing on our website at theChinaproject.com. |
| 0:26.8 | We've got reported stories, essays, and editorials, great explainers, and trackers, |
| 0:32.0 | regular columns, and of course, a growing library of podcasts. |
| 0:36.4 | We cover everything from China's foreign relations to its |
| 0:39.3 | ingenious entrepreneurs, from the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim peoples in China's |
| 0:44.9 | Xinjiang region to Beijing's ambitious plans to shift the Chinese economy onto a post-carbon |
| 0:51.0 | footing. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation |
| 0:56.1 | that is reshaping the world. We cover China with neither fear nor favor. I'm Kaiser Guo, |
| 1:02.1 | coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Last week on Thursday, April 20th, I hosted an online |
| 1:08.4 | event in honor of Earth Day and invited three excellent guests to talk |
| 1:12.6 | about how we should address the urgent issue of global warming in a time of heightened great power |
| 1:18.2 | competition. |
| 1:19.5 | We decided to make a podcast of it, which I now present with apologies that I didn't |
| 1:24.8 | include the usual recommendations segment. |
| 1:26.9 | Sorry, folks. |
| 1:27.9 | Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy and that you learn something from these brilliant folks, |
| 1:32.0 | Marilyn Waite, Alex Wong, and Deborah Selleigson. |
| 1:36.9 | Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to you all, |
| 1:39.9 | and welcome to this online conversation about how the United States and China, which rank |
| 1:45.2 | respectively as the world's largest cumulative and largest current greenhouse gas emitters, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kaiser Kuo, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kaiser Kuo and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.