Double Impact: Why China Needs Coordinated Air Quality and Climate Strategies

Double Impact: Why China Needs Coordinated Air Quality and Climate Strategies

Written by Valerie Karplus, an Assistant Professor in the Global Economics and Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project, this paper examines China’s current approach to tackling air pollution and carbon mitigation nationally and argues that more incentives are needed if China hopes to meet…