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A Chat with Michal Meidan on China's Climate Pledges, Setting Standards and Language Skills
Energy Vista: A Podcast on Energy Issues, Professional and Personal Trajectories
English - December 06, 2020 02:34 - 34 minutes - 25.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCareers Business News Business News balance coal geopolitics lng nuclear policy carbon career education emissions Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Leslie Palti-Guzman exchanges with Michal Meidan, Director of the China Energy Program at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. They discuss the feasibility of China's pledge to be carbon neutral by 2060 and Beijing's reasoning behind setting ambitious environmental goals. They delve into the challenges and opportunities of implementing the new top-down climate strategy and gauge whether Beijing will seize the opportunity to export green technologies abroad via the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). On a personal note, Michal shares about the usefulness of language skills (e.g. Mandarin), but in today's world mastering an exotic language may not be enough unless it's combined with another specialization.