The historic U.S.-China High-Level Event on Subnational Climate Action featured high-level leaders in a robust and action-oriented dialogue on how to advance ambitious climate action, highlighting the ways that coordinated subnational climate action can accelerate progress.
This was the high-level event on subnational climate action that the United States and China announced in the ‘Sunnylands Statement on Enhancing Cooperation to Address the Climate Crisis’ and referenced in the ‘Readout on Meeting of the U.S.-China Working Group on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s’ from May 10, 2024.
The gathering featured over 340 top national, state, provincial and city leaders from across the U.S. and China, including from the States of California, Colorado, Maryland, Tennessee, and Washington; the Provinces of Hainan and Guangdong; and the cities of Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Suzhou in China and Blytheville (AR), Los Angeles (CA), Missoula (MT), Rochester (MN), and San Francisco (CA) in the U.S. – among other jurisdictions.
Programming included:
- Welcome Reception (May 28)
- U.S.-China High-Level Event on Subnational Climate Action: Opening Ceremony (May 29)
- San Francisco Bay to Greater Bay Area China Climate Dialogue (May 29)
- U.S.-China High-Level Event on Subnational Climate Action: Interactive Roundtable Discussions (May 29)
- Side Event: Special Session on Methane (May 30)
- Bay Area Climate Action Site Visits (May 30)
View the Event Agenda here. This private event was by invitation only.
Supporting Partners:
We greatly appreciated the support of the following Supporting Partners for this event:
- C40
- Center for Global Sustainability at The University of Maryland
- America is All In
- Baucus Institute