Cooperating for the Climate

Joanna I. Lewis is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is 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.

Acknowledgments ix
1 Cooperating for the Climate 1
2 The Rise of China's Clean Energy Sector 23
3 International Climate and Energy Engagement with China 45
4 The "Climate G-2": Climate and Energy Cooperation in the US-China Relationship 81
5 Scientific Collaboration for Climate Diplomacy: The US-China Clean Energy Research Center 117
6 Technical Cooperation Shaping Domestic Energy Policy: Sino-Danish Clean Energy Cooperation and the China National Renewable Energy Center 165
7 South-South Clean Energy Cooperation: The China-Brazil Center for Climate Change and Energy Technology Innovation 201
8 The Role of International Cooperation in Scaling Low-Carbon Energy Technologies 233
Notes 253
Bibliography 307
Index 349