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Todd Stern: China Has To Do Much More To Contain Climate Change

U.S.Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern delivered a speech onWednesday (June 3) on the relationship of China and the U.S. and whatboth must do together as we head into a crucial period of bilateral andmultilateral meetings on climate change. Click here for video of speech. Click here for full transcript of speech. The basic [...]

Stern On China: Transparency Is ‘Highly Important’

Originally posted in The Wonk Room. In an exclusive interview with Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoyfor climate change, I discussed the challenge of ensuring a successfulclimate partnership with China, now the world’s greatest annual emitterof global warming pollution. Ahead of his visit to Beijing next week tomeet with his Chinese counterpart, Stern was asked [...]

The Great Divide on Energy Policy

When I accepted the invitation of the American Petroleum Institute(API) to attend the 2009 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) inHouston on their dime, I couldn’t resist the offer out of sheercuriosity. But I had little notion of how illuminating it would be, onso many levels. This isn’t your ordinary,bland-slide-decks-with-boring-exhibits conference. It’s the cuttingedge of the oil [...]