Matthew D. Johnson
Chair, East Asian Studies and Associate Professor, History, Grinnell College
Matthew D. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Grinnell College, and currently an academic visitor at the University of Oxford China Centre. He was formerly a Jacob K. Javits and U.S. Fulbright fellow. In 2011 he became a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Oct 07, 2016
Matthew Johnson discusses the environmental and political implications of the Paris Agreement as it is poised to take effect. Ratification of the Paris Agreement by the U.S. and China signifies an increasingly rare moment of visible cooperation between two environmentally impactful countries. What remains to be seen is how leadership gets allocated in terms of economic benefit and global rule setting.