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This course explores the intersection of two dominant forces shaping the twenty-first century—China and climate change. As simultaneously the world’s largest carbon emitter and the dominant player in developing and deploying clean technologies, China’s actions are of global consequence. The course will address many questions. How are China’s emissions changing? What factors push and retard the country’s energy transition? How is China shifting its development models and what economic and environmental consequences should we expect to see? Who are the key actors shaping climate policies, and how can we assess their incentives? What opinions does the Chinese public express about climate change? How do geopolitics and energy security enter into the political economy calculus of firms and the government? Taught by Jeremy Wallace