The last 72 hours highlighted hurdles and opportunities for U.S.-China cooperation on climate at a time of very deep divisions over human rights, cybersecurity and more.
Driving the news: Chinese state media, in a weekend readout of high-level U.S.-China talks in Alaska on Thursday and Friday, said one outcome of the multitopic meeting will be a "joint working group" on climate.
In a semiannual economic-policy survey by the National Association for Business Economics, more than two-thirds of the 205 respondents said U.S. policy should do more to mitigate climate change.
The big picture: “Seventy percent of respondents believe that economic policy should do more to mitigate climate change, while 55% believe that the federal government should enact a broad-based energy or carbon tax to boost government revenue,” NABE survey chair Ilan Kolet, Institutional Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments, said in a statement.
A delegation for the Biden administration "discussed the climate crisis" with Chinese counterparts during talks in Alaska this week, but the two sides did not form a working group on the issue, contrary to a Chinese media report, a State Department spokesperson tells Axios.
Driving the news: The report followed the first face-to-face diplomatic meetings between officials from the U.S. and China since the start of Joe Biden's presidency. The talks indicated Biden does not "plan to wholly abandon the Trump administration’s tough tone in discussions with Beijing" writes NBC News.
