U.S.-China cooperation on energy and climate change

Among the many topics Secretary of State Clinton hopes to discuss during her upcoming trip to China (the last leg of her current Asia tour) is U.S.-China cooperation on climate change. A rather timely topic given that China is now the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and has considerable clout in determining the likely direction of global attempts to deal with the issue.

That said, there arise many questions over what U.S-China cooperation in this respect might actually look like. What are the particulars? Luckily for all those who ponder such things, a scientific task force run jointly by the Asia Society's Center on U.S-China Relations and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change has worked to compile specific recommendations. The press release can be found here; an overview here; and the PDF of the report in English here