US-China-Australia Dialogue on Energy Security and Climate Change

As part of its commitment to promote high level cooperation on global issues, the Foundation co-presented an inaugural  three-way, one-and-a-half track dialogue on energy security and climate change between the US, China and Australia in Washington in September 2008, with the support of the Australian Government. Building on this productive interchange a further round of the dialogue is presently under consideration, potentially to be held in Beijing in 2010.

The Energy Security and Climate Change dialogue in Washington was co-presented with the China Institute of International Studies and the School of Foreign Studies at Georgetown University. Made possible in part by earlier dialogues with China and the Foundation’s on-going relationship with the US, the dialogue focuses on matters of both policy and practical cooperation on energy security and climate change. The specific impetus for the inaugural dialogue came from the Foundation’s bilateral China-Australia Dialogue on Clean Energy and Environment held in Beijing in April 2008, which was addressed by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd and the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong.

The Report of the Washington dialogue is available.