Global Energy Center Weekly News Roundup | November 5, 2017

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November 5, 2017

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The Road to Bonn: Transatlantic Climate Solutions

On October 31, the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, along with the Council’s Future Europe Initiative and the German Embassy, convened an expert panel for a conversation about the current state of climate action in the United States and in the transatlantic relationship more broadly. Ambassador Richard Morningstar (Ret.), the Global Energy Center’s founding director and chairman, introduced the event by noting the important and timely nature of the conversation, given the upcoming twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) in Bonn, the Trump administration’s announcement that the United States plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and the emergence of pledges from state and local governments and businesses to remain committed to reaching the agreement’s goals.

Moderated by Randolph Bell, the Global Energy Center’s managing director, the panel included Ben Grumbles, Maryland’s secretary of the environment; Dennis Tänzler, the director of international climate policy at Adelphi; and Tommy Wells, the director of the Department of Energy and Environment for the City of Washington, DC. They had a wide-ranging and informative discussion about global climate action, with a focus on state and local action and bottom-up solutions. All three panelists agreed that it is necessary to tackle climate concerns from both the private sector and all levels of government and that the transatlantic relationship is critical for encouraging and fostering climate leadership on both sides of the Atlantic. Watch webcast here ?

Trump Risks Ceding World Stage to an Emboldened Xi

By Craig Hart //   @ACGlobalEnergy

In the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reelection, the Communist Party of China has begun to take steps to realize Xi’s vision of China as an authoritative power on the world stage, adeptly exploiting the vacuum created by a lack of US leadership on issues like international development and climate change. Read more ?