Professor Qi Ye and Sir David King on China's energy policy and climate change commitments

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Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, in conversation with Sir David King, the foreign secretary's special representative on climate change and previously the government's chief scientist, sounds an optimistic note about the prospects for global agreement at the crucial UN talks in Paris in November 2015. The event was part of IPPR's 'Road to Paris' series.

Professor Qi Ye and Sir David King on China's energy policy and climate change commitments

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