Summit Dialogue, Ep. 9: Joshua Busby on “Global Efforts to Limit Carbon Emissions”

There has been a ‘raft’ of environmental reports and climate change summits in the very recent past. I’ve called on Joshua Busby to discuss these summits and the reports and to give us some sense of the success in the global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Josh is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Josh has been deeply involved in the efforts to mitigate climate change. Busby is the author of several studies on climate change, national security, and energy policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the German Marshall Fund, and CNAS. Busby is one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center project on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $7.6 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. He is also the principal investigator of a Complex Emergencies and Political Stability in Asia (CEPSA), a 3-year $1.9 million project, also funded by the Department of Defense. He has also written on U.S.-China relations on climate change for CNAS, Resources for the Future, and the Paulson Institute. His most recent publications include: “As the Stakes Rise, Climate Action Loses Momentum”, Current History, January, 2019, “Warming World: Why Climate Change Matters More Than Anything Else”, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2018, and with Nigel Purvis, “Climate Leadership in Uncertain Times”, The Atlantic Council, September 11, 2018. You will find that the global efforts are rather sobering, but Josh provide a full review of, and insight into, the current climate change efforts.