Contents
Preface
Chapter I Global Context: Clean Energy and Climate Changes
1. Historical Changes in Global Climate Change
2. Cause and Effects of Energy Selection and Climate Changes
3. Taking the Developing the Clean Energy as A New Impetus for the Actions to Address the Climate Changes
Chapter II China and the U.S.’s Strategies and Policies on the Actions to Address the Climate Changes
1. National Conditions: China and the U.S.
2. Promoting the Actions to Climate Changes and Developing Clean Energy
3. Policies on the Actions to Climate Changes and Developing Clean Energy
Chapter III The Cooperation Between China and the U.S. in Promoting Clean Energy Development
1. Cooperation Background and Discourse
2. The Current State of Cooperation and Its Potentials
Chapter IV Key areas on Cooperation of Clean Energy between China and the U.S.
1. Cooperation on Technology R&D in Clean Energy
2. Cooperation on Industry Investment in Clean Energy
3. Cooperation on Products and Trades in Clean Energy
4. Carbon Trading
Chapter V Conflicts on Cooperation of the Actions to Address Climate Changes and Clean Energy, and the Policy Suggestions on Deepening Cooperation between China and the U.S.
1. Disputes on the Actions to Address Climate Changes and Greenhouse Gas Emission
2. Disputes on Sustainable Environmental Products and the Marketing of Clean Energy Products
3. Policy Suggestions on Deeping the Cooperation on the Actions to Address Climate Changes and Clean Energy.
References
Postscript
Xu Hongfeng, Ph.D. Associate Researcher, Institute of Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Sino-US relations in the 21 Century are increasingly determined by their economic relations, on which the development of clean energy has had growing impact. Both China and the United States play a decisive role in world affairs. For the U.S. , the strategic goal is to maintain its dominance and to protect that status from threats posed by emerging powers by seizing the historical opportunities for the development of a low-carbon economy. By contrast, China’s strategic goal is to enhance its international status and secure a greater say in world affair, while preventing existing hegemonic powers constraining it. The two countries have good reasons for wanting to cooperate in clean energy development, but the possibility of conflicts also exist