Diplomacy may actually produce some real results on climate change. Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia says addressing climate change requires the U S and China to put aside differences and collaborate on climate policy in a California China Climate Institute discussion. For a transcript, please visit https://climatebreak.org/what-u-s-china-diplomacy-relationship-means-for-fighting-climate-change-with-kevin-rudd-california-china-climate-institute/
For a transcript, please visit https://climatebreak.org/what-u-s-china-diplomacy-relationship-means-for-fighting-climate-change-with-kevin-rudd-california-china-climate-institute/
Rudd: Working diplomatically with states, with whom you have a whole range of fundamental disagreement. Diplomacy may actually produce some real results We can walk and chew gum at the same time on this stuff. And the planet requires us to do.
Ethan: That's Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, in a California-China Climate Institute discussion with former Governor Jerry Brown. Rudd says addressing climate change requires the US and China to put aside differences and collaborate on climate policy.
Rudd: It's time for the Chinese and the Americans to put the megaphone down for awhile and rediscover the virtues of diplomatic dialogue. You can prescribe an architecture for the U S China relationship, which creates the political space for collaboration and global public goods. where the stakes are so large globally and no single nation can make the difference, but all nations together can make the difference.
What I'd love to see is for the climate change working group between China and the United States to become the engine room of further climate change transformation. Because what Americans do and what the Chinese do together, you actually shape a large part of the future of the planet because you're the first and second largest emitters in the world.
Ethan: To learn more about Kevin Rudd and the US-China Climate Change Working Group, visit climatebreak.org. I'm Ethan Elkind and this was Climate Break.