Representatives from 196 countries met in Paris in December 2015
and reached a historic agreement to address climate change. The
Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a presentation and discussion
by Jonathan Elkind, Assistant Secretary for the Office of
International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. He offered
remarks focused on post-Paris international collaborations on clean
energy. David Sandalow, Inagural Fellow at the Center on Global
Energy Policy, moderated the discussion after the presentation.
This event originally took place on April 19. 2016.
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