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Skip to main content Currently Reading China finances most coal plants built today - it's a climate problem and why US-China talks are essential Jeff Nesbit, Yale University FacebookTwitterEmail Jeff Nesbit, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China end its reliance on coal and its financing of overseas coal-fired power plants? China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has spent tens of billion...

Jeff Nesbit is a research affiliate with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications and executive director of Climate Nexus, a non-profit organization that works on climate and clean energy issues and solutions. He was the director of legislative and public affairs at the National Science Foundation during the Bush and Obama administrations, where he helped craft the legislative and public affairs strategy that led to the passage of the bipartisan America COMPETES Act. He was also former Vice President Dan Quayle’s communications director at the White House, and former FDA Commission...

Skip to main content Currently Reading China finances most coal plants built today - it's a climate problem and why US-China talks are essential Jeff Nesbit, Yale University FacebookTwitterEmail Jeff Nesbit, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China end its reliance on coal and its financing of overseas coal-fired power plants? China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has spent tens of billion...

The Biden administration plans to ratchet up the country’s own commitments to reducing emissions while pressing emerging economies such as China and India to curtail construction of coal-fired plants and Brazil to preserve more of the Amazon.