Panel I    Transformations: Society and Environment

The Panel I Chair and Discussant was Professor Julia Strauss, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London; former Editor of China Quarterly; Vice-President and Founding Fellow of Global China Academy, UK

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development Columbia University, USA, delivered his speech online. The topic was Pandemics and climate change: can they change US/China relations for the better?

Professor Nick Butler, Founding Chair of King’s Policy Institute, King’s College London, spoke on The governance of the changing international energy market

Dr Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations, Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE, delivered a speech on China, the US and international climate cooperation in an age of geopolitical rivalry

The last contribution in this panel was a speech delivered online by Dr HU Bin, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University, China. The topic was Towards carbon neutrality: strategies and challenges in China

Discussion, Q & A

Coffee/tea break     

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