The California-China Climate Institute was thrilled to host and facilitate the U.S.-China Climate Forum taking alongside APEC 2023 on November 16th in San Francisco. The U.S.-China Climate Forum provided an important opportunity to discuss U.S.-China engagement alongside the 2023 APEC convening.  

This private, invite-only event, organized by the California-China Climate Institute – a University of California-wide initiative jointly housed at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, and Rausser College of Natural Resources – featured an array of experts’ work in this domain to identify and explore policy gaps, and detail opportunities to work together on matters relating to climate policy in the U.S. and China.  

Agenda

10:30 AM – Forum opens with breakfast and coffee

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – High-Level Dialogue: Advancing U.S. China Climate Action

•  Keynote Remarks:
  • ​Honorable Jerry Brown, former Governor of California 
  • Honorable Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington
  • ZHANG Jianmin, Consul General, Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, China
  • PAN Jiang, Deputy Director General, National Development and Reform Commission, China
  • WANG Weizhong, Governor of Guangdong, China (video)
  • XU Kunlin, Governor of Jiangsu Province, China (video)
• High-Level Discussion featuring: 
  • Liane Randolph, Chair, California Air Resources Board
  • David Hochschild, Chair, California Energy Commission
  • Toks Omishakin, Secretary, California State Transportation Agency
  • Elaine Forbes, Executive Director, Port of San Francisco
  • Tyrone Jue, Director, San Francisco Environment Department
  • ZHU Yunlai, Former President and CEO, CICC, China; Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Tsinghua University
  • ZHOU Zheng, Minister Counselor, Chinese Embassy 
  • XIA Yingxian, Director-General, Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Ecology and Environment (video)
  • JIANG Wei, Director General, Department of Ecology and Environment Department, Jiangsu Province (video)
  • ZENG Gong, Mayor, Shanghai, Department of Ecology and Environment (video)
  • CHEN Tian, Director General of Beijing Bureau of Ecology and Environment (video)
  • JIANG Wei, Director General, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (video)
  • YANG Wanming, President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (video)

12:30 - 1:30 PM – Luncheon

• Keynote Remarks:
  • Hal Harvey, Founder of Energy Innovation
  • ZHU Yunlai, Former President and CEO, CICC, China; Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Tsinghua University

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Deeper Dive: Climate Research and Actions

• Opening Remarks
• Panel discussion featuring:
  • Scott Vaughan, International Chief Advisor, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development
  • Richard Corey, Partner, AJW Inc., Former Executive Officer of California Air Resources Board
  • David Ackerly, Dean, Rausser College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley
  • Louise Bedsworth, Director, Center of Law, Energy & the Environment, University of California, Berkeley
  • Alex Wang, Professor, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
  • ZHANG Da, Professor, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University
• CCCI Report Launch: Tracking Subnational Progress towards Carbon Neutrality in the US and China 
  • ​Fritz Kahrl, Affiliated Researcher, California-China Climate Institute

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM – Break

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM – Reception co-hosted with the Nature Conservancy

• Closing remarks by
  • Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California (invited)
  • ZHU Yunlai, Former President and CEO, CICC, China; Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Tsinghua University