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Can America Still Lead the Global Energy Transition?

2024/9/19
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Brian Deese认为，全球能源转型将是人类历史上最大的资本形成事件，规模超过工业革命。美国面临着来自中国的竞争以及气候变化的威胁。虽然《通货膨胀削减法案》等政策促进了国内清洁能源投资，但这还不够。Deese主张实施一项“清洁能源马歇尔计划”，以促进国际合作，降低清洁能源技术的成本，并应对中国在清洁能源供应链中的主导地位。他认为，不能简单地接受中国在清洁能源领域的非市场行为，而应通过多元化和战略合作来应对。Deese还强调了在清洁能源领域中，美国需要务实地与盟友合作，并采取不加掩饰地支持美国的方式来推动清洁能源转型，并使美国人民明白这符合美国的经济和国家利益。他还讨论了关税、出口管制和工业政策在应对中国竞争中的作用，以及如何避免这些工具的过度使用。Deese认为，美国需要一个新的清洁能源金融机构，以灵活的方式利用各种金融工具来引领清洁能源领域的交易。他还认为，美国需要在人工智能能源需求与气候变化目标之间取得平衡，并通过快速审批流程来鼓励清洁能源建设。最后，Deese谈到了通货膨胀问题，认为政府需要继续努力降低成本，并与民众保持沟通。 Dan Kurtz-Felin主要负责引导话题，提出问题，并对Brian Deese的观点进行总结和回应。他从全球能源转型的规模、中国在清洁能源领域的竞争、美国国内政策的不足以及应对策略等多个角度与Brian Deese进行了深入探讨。

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The United States is grappling with two of the biggest challenges it has ever faced: the rise of China and the threat of catastrophic climate change.

At home, the Biden administration has forged a green industrial policy that could transform the U.S. economy. But as China threatens to dominate the global market for clean energy, it is not enough to invest domestically, Brian Deese argues in a new *Foreign Affairs *essay).

Deese has been at the center of climate and economic policymaking for over a decade. He served as the director of the National Economic Council in the Biden administration, where he was one of the key architects behind the Inflation Reduction Act. During the Obama years, he helped lead the auto bailout and negotiate the Paris agreement on climate change.

Now, he has a plan for the United States to lead the global energy transition on its own terms.

You can find transcripts and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview).