This executive summary highlights the crucial actions that China and the U.S. can take - both alone and in partnership - to address significant climate challenges across multiple sectors, including: decarbonizing the power sector, mitigating methane emissions, combating illegal deforestation, decarbonizing industry, advancing green shipping and aviation, reducing food waste, decarbonizing buildings, implementing zero-emission vehicle deployment, and promoting subnational cooperation. The paper highlights findings across the complete series of papers.
Authors:
- Fan Dai, California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley*
- Louise Bedsworth, University of California, Berkeley*
- Jessica Gordon, California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley*
- Joanna Lewis, Georgetown University*
* Organizations are noted for affiliation purposes only. This paper represents authors’ views, and not necessarily those of their institutions.
