Safeguarding US-China climate cooperation
2025-07-31
Recent years have brought a chill to United States–China relations that extends into scientific collaboration. The recent renewal and amendment of the US-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA), in place for nearly a half-century, both reflects current tensions and offers an opportunity to remedy them. The United States and China could seize this opportunity by developing a constructive implementation strategy under the STA specifically for climate science and technology collaboration. Such a strategy would leverage the STA framework to advance science for the common good and demonstrate that cooperation on urgent issues can endure despite political headwinds.