Our Climate Deal with China

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 12, 2014

President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jingping announced a joint climate agreement this morning. The US will cut carbon emissions from 2005 levels by over 25 percent by the year 2025. China will aim to get 20 percent of the country's energy from climate neutral sources by 2030, and pledges to peak carbon emissions by that year. 

Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-author of By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World (Oxford University Press, 2014) talks about the new deal. He is senior fellow for energy and the environment and director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. 

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