🎧 Can China and the UK actually work together on climate change?

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In today’s episode, Sam and Steve speak to Belinda Schäpe. Belinda is an independent expert and policy advisor on Chinese climate policy and diplomacy, and helped to add proper policy detail to the vague claims that the UK and China need to engage on climate. What does engagement look like? Where can we work together? Where should we compete?

Her work can be read here:

• Decarbonising the Chinese steel sector: Drivers and challenges, to be published in April 2024, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

• Germany’s new China strategy - a roadmap for climate foreign policy, August 2023, 9Dashline.

• Islands and oases: EU-China climate diplomacy in times of geopolitical challenges, in EU-China relations at a crossroads, Vol. II: Decoding complexity, mitigating risk, July 2023, European Policy Centre.

• Follow the money – Chinese climate-related finance to the Global South, April 2023, E3G.

• World drives forward on No New Coal but China takes a detour, March 2023, E3G.

• The EU's climate leadership is now on foreign minister, February 2023, Euractiv.

• The 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress: what it means for China’s climate policy, October 2022, E3G.

• China’s crucial role in decarbonising the global steel sector, March 2022, China Dialogue.

• Climate Engagement with China: A Litmus Test for Germany’s G7 Presidency, March 2022, CHOICE (China Observers in Central Europe).

• Coal in 2022: China’s coal power in the spotlight, January 2022, E3G.

• Global Warming: a cooperation issue to avoid the freezing of EU-China relations? In Building Europe’s Strategic Autonomy vis-à-vis China, December 2021, Jacques Delors Institute.

• Understanding CBAM, the EU’s carbon levy, November 2021, China Dialogue.

• Snapshot – October 2021: The geopolitical context for global climate action, October 2021, E3G.

• 1+N: What’s in China’s upcoming climate plans?, October 2021, E3G.

• UNGA 2021: What happened?, September 2021, E3G.

  A storm in a teacup – Impacts and geopolitical risks of the European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, August 2021, E3G, Sandbag, and Energy Foundation China.

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