Search query: The geopolitics of renewable energy
Video title:  they're on the market so the level of cooperation needed when we were first of all in a much more of a research phase but secondly in a phase where we were still trying to sort of build confidence in the possibility of a post-carbon future was probably much higher and a lot of that cooperation was extremely useful but it's also the case that over the years a lot of our cooperation and climate change was actually used to try to reduce tension in other areas we would say well we have this friction in the south china sea but let's talk about how well we get along on climate change right now climate is too important to be simply the happy cooperative thing for some other purpose we actually have got to get the job done on climate and i think we can get the job done better because there's so many commercially available technologies by working on the competition aspect for the entire time i've worked on climate change people have been trying to use various uh world trade organization analogies to climate agreements and i think in the current context where there's so much available commercially where the need is so obvious where the prices are actually good if we think about the way the wto normally works which is just to set those standards set the bars set the behavior for trade among nations and then let companies compete that's the way we have to think about climate too and i think the wto is a good analogy for the moment that we're at right now there have been a lot of discussions within the wto about having lower tariffs or no tariffs for environmentally friendly goods and i think that is an environment especially in light of president biden's buildback better plan and his plan for an enormous infrastructure program where u.s companies can compete easily