Climate Action in China, US-China Relations, and the Role of International Cooperation
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Professor Joanna Lewis will discuss climate and energy policymaking in China, the history and status of US-China climate cooperation, and the role of China in international climate negotiations.
Climate Action in China, US-China Relations, and the Role of International Cooperation
Speaker: Joanna Lewis, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Thursday, April 10, 2025
12:15pm to 1:45pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom (details below)
About the Speaker
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 over 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 at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her new book, Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector was recently released by MIT Press. She is also the author of the award-winning book Green Innovation in China, and was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. Lewis has worked for a number of governmental and non-governmental organizations including the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the Asia Society and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and has been a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the East-West Center. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies, among others. Lewis holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University.
Recommended Reading
- “China,” written by Joanna Lewis, a chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy (part of a series Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences), pages 424-428.
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