Jeffrey Ball - Mentions and Appearances
China has launched a potentially massive transformation of its green enterprise, one intended to improve the economic efficiency of a Green China Inc. that has, in fundamental ways, grown soft. That is an opportunity for Western capitalists as much as for Chinese ones — to say nothing of the planet.
Global warming has advanced from a future ecological challenge to a present financial shock.
Those outside China have more to gain by helping China improve its clean energy game than they do by thwarting it. Despite their trade-war chest-thumping, despite their framing of the push for cleaner energy as a nationalistic zero-sum game, Beijing, Brussels and Washington – or more specifically, Chinese and Western capitalists – need each other so each can do what they most want in the global clean energy race: maximize the money they make.
[On carbon pricing without adjustments] It’s giving politicians and the public the warm feeling that they’re fighting climate change, even as the problem continues to grow.
[On carbon emissions trading schemes] Policymakers and the public delude themselves that they are meaningfully addressing global warming.
Brookings Non-Resident Senior Fellow Jeffrey Ball speaks on the Brian Lehrer Show with New York Public Radio, during Earth Week 2019, on climate change and climate adaptation.
[On Chinese gains in innovation in clean energy] And China is doing this in a very strategic way, in a very methodical way.
[On China and clean energy] I think it’s important to realise that China’s influence here is not simply in the mega solar projects that it builds within its own borders, but also in the mega solar projects that are built outside of China.