possibility they might. and in fact, this is how it appeared to play out this week. epa seeks 30% cut in power plant carbon emissions by 2030. that was monday. china said on tuesday it will set an absolute cap on its co2 emissions from 2016, just a day after the united states announced its new targets for its power sector. now on day three, chinese adviser who made the relevant comments is walking it back a bit. what i said today is my personal view. the opinions expressed at the workshop were only meant for academic studies. what i said does not represent the chinese government or any organization. but nevertheless, it still proves a point. sooner or later, china will have to respond to a growing global consensus about the need to reduce carbon emissions. and the u.s. is the single most important player, in forming that consensus and applying that pleasure. joining me now, anjali, author of what the u.s. can learn from china. and joseph brown, the chief science adviser for years of
china. and joseph brown, the chief science adviser for years of living dangerously, a showtime documentary series i m also a part of. all right, ann, china has been really interesting on this issue. they have been hugely increasing emissions. they re building lots of coal-fired plants. they re also doing a lot to subsidize solar and get on to green energy. and they ve also basically had their own domestic politics to deal, in the same way that we do. i mean, it s a very different kind of structured government, it s not a democracy, but there is public opinion where people say, don t kill our economy by not letting us emit coal. oh, absolutely. there are very powerful interest groups in china, just as we have very powerful interest groups as well. so it has been a tough reform for the chinese government. they actually had passed laws as early as 1990 to clean the environment and recently they passed new amendments to try to put more teeth into it.
pleasure. joining me now, anjali, author of what the u.s. can learn from china. and joseph brown, the chief science adviser for years of living dangerously, a showtime documentary series i m also a part of. all right, ann, china has been really interesting on this issue. they have been hugely increasing emissions. they re building lots of coal-fired plants. they re also doing a lot to subsidize solar and get on to green energy. and they ve also basically had their own domestic politics to deal, in the same way that we do. i mean, it s a very different kind of structured government, it s not a democracy, but there is public opinion where people say, don t kill our economy by not letting us emit coal. oh, absolutely. there are very powerful interest groups in china, just as we have very powerful interest groups as well. so it has been a tough reform for the chinese government. they actually had passed laws as early as 1990 to clean the
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what? was that tom friedman? that was a clip from years of living dangerously, a series of showtime exploring climate change. joining us now from washington, new york times columnist thomas friedman who is also a correspondent for the series. tom, that was shot in such a way i thought it was james bond. exactly. my good ps. amazing what they can do in hollywood. actually, you re shedding light on an issue we need to talk about. i totally got the issue wrong. let s go to the right issue. climate change. talk about the series. it looks incredible. what were we looking at? it s an amazing nine-part series really looking at how climate change, environmental stresses are playing out on the ground in real life. i was involved in four episodes. one was in syria looking at the