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From pollution to solution: will China save the planet?

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe.

Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution, phasing out coal consumption and leading the development of a global system of green finance.

But as leading China environmental expert and author of Will China Save the Planet? Barbara Finamore will explain in this talk, it is anything but easy. The fundamental economic and political challenges that China faces in addressing its domestic environmental crisis threaten to derail its low-carbon energy transition. Yet there is reason for hope. China's leaders understand that transforming the world's second largest economy from one dependent on highly polluting heavy industry to one focused on clean energy, services and innovation is essential, not only to the future of the planet, but to China's own prosperity.

We will also hear from respondent Radhika Khosla, Research Director at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, Somerville College.

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Series
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
People
Barbara Finamore
Radhika Khosla
Keywords
climate change
planetary health
pollution
china
economics
Environment
carbon
policy
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 24/06/2019
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