Global Ethics Weekly: Climate Change Mitigation & Governance, with C2G2's Janos Pasztor

Nov 1, 2018

As activists, politicians, and environmentalists come to terms with a dire report on global warming from the UN's IPCC, Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2), remains focused on the governance of the potential use of climate change "mitigation" technologies. What do these discussions look like in China? What do smaller countries think? And how challenging is it that climate change remains a political divisive issue in the U.S.?

As activists, politicians, and environmentalists come to terms with a dire report on global warming from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2), remains focused on the governance of the potential use of climate change "mitigation" technologies. What do these discussions look like in China? What do smaller countries think? And how challenging is it that climate change remains a political divisive issue in the U.S.?

For more on C2G2, visit their official website or follow them on Twitter.

This podcast also references this 2016 Carnegie Council interview with Pasztor and his recent talk at the Fifth Taihu World Cultural Forum in Beijing.

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