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The Paris summit set lofty goals to resolve climate change, but green finance is key to meet them
Hart, et al., ’16 (Melanie, Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at the Center for American Progress, Pete Ogden, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, “Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation,”6/13, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/, bgm) In the post-Paris era, the United States and China not only will AND China may continue to make green investments at home and brown investments abroad.

US can’t solve global warming alone-needs help from China since it is top contributor of emissions.
Pilar 16 (Paul R. Pilar has been in the CIA for 28 years and was one of the agency’s top analysts. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/02/will-china-take-lead-on-global-warming/ ) A common argument made by some of those opposed to the United States reducing its AND — with an atmospheric result that continues to make the planet less habitable.

Global Warming has been proven, and it could cause extinction.
Flournoy 12, He talks about the work from Dr. Feng Hsu. Hsu is a NASA scientist, Formerly an engineering researcher at world renowned [|Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)], Dept. of Advanced Technology, he has worked extensively on reliability, Probabilistic Risk Assessment. Feng is now a leading NASA engineer working on frontier space missions at NASA GSFC, and he has over 70 publications, including Journal articles, NUREG/CRs, BNL and NASA technical reports as documented for US NRC, US DOE, US FAA, and NASA etc. Feng earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the University of Texas. (Don, “Solar Power Satellites”) book, pg. 10-11.GHS-ER In the Online Journal of Space Communication, Dr. Feng Hsu, a NASA AND __simply too high for us to take any chances” __ (Hsu 2010).

Carbon emissions independently cause extinction from ocean acidification
Hoegh-Guldberg and Bruno, ’10 (Ove, professor and director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia, and John, associate professor in the Department of Marine Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, “The Impact of Climate Change on the World’s Marine Ecosystems,” Science 18 June 2010: Vol. 328 no. 5985 pp. 1523-1528, DOI: 10.1126/science.1189930, bgm) Although most of the ocean is undergoing impacts from multiple anthropogenic stressors (49), AND growing risk of pushing our planet into an unknown and highly dangerous state.

And air pollution independently kills millions in China each year
Levin 15 (Dan, “Study Links Polluted Air in China to 1.6 Million Deaths a Year,” August 13 2015) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/asia/study-links-polluted-air-in-china-to-1-6-million-deaths-a-year.html?_r=0) PC BEIJING — Outdoor air pollution contributes to the deaths of an estimated 1.6 AND  to also have to clean up the entire industrial region 200 miles away.”

There’s still time to solve climate change, but finance for green tech is key
Beres, 15 ---Damon Beres is the senior tech editor for The Huffington Post. His work has appeared in Reader's Digest magazine, the New York Daily News, Esquire.com and other fine outlets. (12/14/15, Damon, “Can Tech Stop Climate Change? We Asked An Expert,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tech-climate-change_us_566f2719e4b0fccee16f7215) If you keep up with the news, you’ve seen a lot about climate change AND development,” Parson said. “There is a big message of optimism.”

Chinese leadership on climate change expands Beijing’s political influence and gives them credibility
Armstrong 15(Ian, Supervisor and Researcher at Wikistrat, Key impacts of China’s environmental leadership, http://globalriskinsights.com/2015/12/key-impacts-of-chinas-environmental-leadership/) In terms of carbon emissions, international influence, and symbolic importance, few countries AND //credibility gained from Beijing’s environmental recast will in part transfer to other debates.//

Chinese soft power solves all global problems
Zhang, ’12 (Weiwei Zhang, is a Chinese professor of international relations at Fudan University, and a senior research fellow at the Chunqiu Institute a senior fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and a visiting professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, “The rise of China's political soft power”, china.org.cn, September 4, 2012, http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2012-09/04/content_26421330.htm) As China plays an increasingly significant role in the world, its soft power must AND //As the China model improves, it will continue to surprise the world.//

Leadership on green finance specifically is key to the 2016 G20 summit – China has made it a priority
Lehr, 6/7 /16 (Deborah, Senior Fellow at the Paulson Institute, “For China, Green Finance is a Strategic Imperative,” http://www.paulsoninstitute.org/paulson-blog/2016/06/07/for-china-green-finance-is-a-strategic-imperative/, bgm) With last month’s high-profile signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement by 174 countries AND to green economic growth as the Paris Climate Summit was to climate change.

Successful Chinese leadership at the G20 guarantees economic stability
Ocampo, 7/8 /16 (José Antonio, professor at Columbia University and Chair of the UN Economic and Social Council’s Committee for Development Policy, former Minister of Finance of Colombia and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, “Realizing the Potential of China’s G20 Presidency,” https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g20-summit-global-monetary-reform-by-jose-antonio-ocampo-2016-07, bgm) In the run-up to this September’s G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, AND growth in developed and developing countries alike, it must not be squandered.

Collapse of economic coordination makes a laundry list of impacts inevitable
Yet if **__historians__** look back on today's severe downturn, with its crumbling markets, AND
 * __ Garten, 09 __** – professor at the Yale School of Management (Jeffrey, “The Dangers of Turning Inward”, 3/5, Wall Street Journal, http://www.business.illinois.edu/aguilera/Teaching/WSJ09_Dangers_of_Turning_Inward.pdf)
 * __the hundreds of millions of people who are now falling back into__** **//__poverty?__//**

The plan’s engagement on green finance solves climate change
Hart, et al., ’16 (Melanie, Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at the Center for American Progress, Pete Ogden, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, “Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation,”6/13, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/, bgm) The United States and China have a near-term opportunity to work together on AND be another constructive plank in the U.S.-China climate relationship.

Baseline levels of cooperation now trigger their disads, but engagement on green finance is key
Hart, et al., ’16 (Melanie, Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at the Center for American Progress, Pete Ogden, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, “Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation,”6/13, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/, bgm) Despite the array of collaborative exchanges that are already underway, the United States and AND of which could provide new opportunities for U.S.-China cooperation.

China says yes – they need collaboration to invest
Lingling, 6/6 /16 (Wei, China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, “China Seeks U.S. Investment in Green Projects,” http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-u-s-investment-in-green-projects-1465194173, bgm) With progress slow toward a broad investment treaty with the U.S., senior AND direct bilateral assistance will be needed to meet those needs, he said.

Both sides say yes – past successes prove
Hart, et al., ’16 (Melanie, Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at the Center for American Progress, Pete Ogden, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Kelly Sims Gallagher, professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, “Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation,”6/13, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/, bgm) China already is one of the biggest providers of international energy assistance through the China AND benefits for developing countries while minimizing environmental, social, and climate risks.


 * 1AC AIIB **

====Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and diplomatic engagement with the People's Republic of China to develop sustainable investment standards in China's financing institutions.====

Advantage 1 is China Rise
Scott Kennedy 15 —- Deputy Director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies and Director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies(Scott; "What Went Wrong With U.S. Strategy on China's New Bank and What Should Washington Do Now?"; March 25^^th^^; https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/what-went-wrong-us-strategy-chinas-new-bank-and-what-should-washington-do-now)//pk In 2005, then United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick famously called on AND will be able to justly claim they are truly acting as responsible stakeholders.
 * ====AIIB is China's first signature contribution —- failure to engage it fuels perception of containment====**

====Engaging on the AIIB is critical —- it's the focal point for China's expanded international role and cooperation will help resolve Myanmar conflict and spillover to cybersecurity and the South China Sea==== In 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama announced plans to "pivot AND . cooperation. Development lending could prove a minimally politically sensitive testing ground.
 * Noori, et. al, 15** —- Program Specialist, Middle East & North Africa Programs at United States Institute of Peace (8/24/15, Maral Noori, Daniel Jasper and Jason Tower, "Overcoming Barriers to U.S.-China Cooperation," http://www.usip.org/publications/2015/08/24/overcoming-barriers-us-china-cooperation, downloaded on 4/21/16, JMP)

Failure to recalibrate U.S. economic policy toward China risks miscalculation that triggers great power conflict
Nye suggests that the greatest threat to U.S. influence may not be AND world order." Here's to hoping that the United States heeds that judgment.
 * Wyne, 15** —- contributing analyst at Wikistrat and a global fellow at the Project for the Study of the 21st Century (6/1/15, Ali, "Is America's Mind-set the Greatest Threat to Its Future?" http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america%E2%80%99s-mind-set-the-greatest-threat-its-future-13004?page=show, article downloaded 5/3/16, JMP) ***Joseph Nye is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and one of the most esteemed analysts of world affairs

South China Sea conflict goes nuclear.
Christensen 6/5/15 – Thomas J., Boswell professor of world politics and director of the China and the World Program at Princeton University, is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, "China's Rising Military: Now for the Hard Part" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-05/china-s-rising-military-now-for-the-hard-part One reason for this is that no consensus exists in East Asia on the territorial AND conditions in which a technologically superior foe attacks crucial targets with conventional weapons.

Expanding economic engagement key to maintain foundation for relations —- lowers risk of conflict
DR. DOLLAR: The leaders on the two sides, U.S. AND of the relationship. And then the risks of conflict become much greater.
 * Dollar, 15** —- Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings (9/30/15, David, "INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND CHINA'S RISE: HOW SHOULD THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN RESPOND?" http://www.brookings.edu//media/events/2015/09/30-international-economic-governance-chinas-rise/20150930_china_economic_governance_transcript.pdf, article downloaded 6/12/16, JMP)

Ensuring peaceful rise is necessary to prevent World War 3 —- lack of engagement on AIIB has wrecked U.S. leadership
It is very worrying for the world that American policy makers should be capable of AND us hope the appropriate lessons are learned. Pax Americana is still needed.
 * Lehmann, 15** —- Emeritus Professor at IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland), currently Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University and at NIIT University in Neemrana, Rajasthan (India) (4/2/15, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, "China And The US: The AIIB Fiasco &amp; America's Colossal Loss Of Face," http://www.forbes.com/sites/jplehmann/2015/04/02/china-and-the-us-the-aiib-fiasco-americas-colossal-loss-of-face/print/, article downloaded 6/14/16, JMP)

Independently, the plan gives the U.S. critical influence to address a number of nuclear threats and propel cooperation to a new level
The founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kwan Yew, who passed away recently, AND the World Bank and others to work out how to play with it.
 * Chakravorti, 15** —- Senior Associate Dean of International Business & Finance at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and founding Executive Director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context (4/20/15, Bhaskar, "China's New Development Bank Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington," https://hbr.org/2015/04/chinas-new-development-bank-is-a-wake-up-call-for-washington, article downloaded on 6/18/16, JMP)

Advantage 2 is Climate Change
====The choices made in Asian infrastructure development now will determine the future of global warming – expanding renewable energy markets and building sustainable and climate resilient infrastructure through the AIIB are key to keep warming below 2 degrees==== The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (the AIIB or the Bank) is poised AND with major long-term commercial benefits for many members of the AIIB.
 * Nassiry and Nakhooda 16** – Darius Nassiry, head of the international cooperation department at the Global Green Growth Institute, investment manager with the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund) Center for Global Development, Smita Nakhooda, international finance to support developing countries to respond to climate change, "The AIIB and the investment in action," 4/13/2016, https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/the_aiib_and_investment_in_action_final_20160413.pdf//TK

And the aff causes a global alt energy movement – spills over and creates a global model that solves climate change; gives markets, not politicians, control
//Can China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) fix climate change? Yes.// //AND// //to climate change replicable elsewhere. Deals like this don't occur every day.//
 * Taggart 15** - principal of Sydney, Australia-based Grenatec, a non-profit research organization studying the viability of a Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure (Stewart Taggart, 3/31/2015, "Can China's Infrastructure Bank Solve Climate Change?," http://grenatec.com/can-chinas-infrastructure-bank-solve-climate-change)//TK//

//**====And AIIB success will kickstart global finance and lending institutions to increase sustainable development====**// //**Elgin-Cossart and Hart '15** - Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at American Progress. She focuses on U.S. foreign policy toward China and works to identify new opportunities for bilateral cooperation, particularly on energy, climate change, and cross-border investment - Senior Fellow at American Progress, where she works on issues involving foreign policy, international development, and global conflict (Center for American Progress, "China's New International Financing Institutions Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Investment Standards," September 2015, https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/21140703/RaceToTheTop-brief.pdf)// JB­­­ In recent years, China has moved into development finance in a very big way AND banks, and in the process, create a race to the top.

Now is key to prevent 2 degrees increase
The news is in: humans are totally failing in the global effort to stop AND goal will require dedication, international cooperation and a lot of hard work.
 * Harvey '14 ­- Chelsea Harvey is a science reporter for Business Insider. She is based in New York City (Chelsea Harvey, science reporter, "Here's How Little Time We Have Until Global Warming Is Out Of Control," September 2014, http://www.businessinsider.com/when-will-climate-change-be-out-of-control-2014-9 )// JB**

Climate change will be catastrophic and result in human extinction
In the Online Journal of Space Communication, Dr. Feng Hsu, a NASA AND our Sun" (Hsu 2010) (Fig. 2.1).
 * Flournoy Ph.D. 12** – Professor at the University of Ohio, Ph.D. and M.A. from the Univeristy of Texas, Postgraduate Associateship at the University of London, B.A. from Southern Methodist University, Editor of the Online Journal of Space Communications. Citing Dr. Feng Hsu, Senior Engineer and Manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (Don M., Ph.D., SpringerBriefs in Space Development, "Solar Power Satellites," 2012, Springer)//JSL

Loopholes and loose regulations in the AIIB now could cause backsliding – only U.S. involvement can correct course and ensure environmentally friendly regulations
Unfortunately, the AIIB's draft environmental and social framework, released last week, does AND as well as the comparative advantage of each institution in undertaking specific projects.
 * Elgin-Cossart and Hart '15** - Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at American Progress. She focuses on U.S. foreign policy toward China and works to identify new opportunities for bilateral cooperation, particularly on energy, climate change, and cross-border investment - Senior Fellow at American Progress, where she works on issues involving foreign policy, international development, and global conflict (Center for American Progress, "China's New International Financing Institutions Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Investment Standards," September 2015, https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/21140703/RaceToTheTop-brief.pdf)// VM

The plan solves – leverages empirically successful US-Chinese cooperation to cut GHG emissions
Continuing to maintain that stance would be a mistake. The United States has an AND United States is well placed to play a constructive role in that endeavor.
 * Mauro '15**- senior fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics (Paolo Mauro, Peterson Institute for International Economics, "Why America Should Join the AIIB," 6/12/15, https://piie.com/commentary/op-eds/why-america-should-join-aiib)//NH

US-China cooperation key to check North Korean aggression
China and the United States share the same short-term interests on the Korean AND Sino-US diplomatic effort. Indeed, it is a political necessity.
 * Gady 16**- Franz, a Senior Fellow with the EastWest Institute, "Sino-US Cooperation Over North Korea Is Now More Important Than Ever" (http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/sino-us-cooperation-over-north-korea-is-now-more-important-than-ever/, 6/22/16, JD)

This causes Japanese prolif
F. Michael **Maloof 13** "NORTH KOREA NOW THREATENING JAPAN" 04/11/2013 at 3:19 PM www.wnd.com/2013/04/north-korea-now-threatening-japan/#! // JS North Korea today expanded its saber-rattling, which earlier included threats against South AND has called for revision of the Japanese constitution but to develop nuclear weapons.

If Tokyo attempts to get the bomb, the arms race gets out of control

 * Sokolski 2016**-executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Henry D, "Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future," Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, ISBN 1-58487-719-7 Yet, another optimistic view argues that it may actually be in Washington's interest to AND nuclear program, including reprocessing and enrichment. They might do both.134

A miscalcated response via "use-it-or-lose-it" is inevitable in a world of an arms race

 * Cimbala 2015** – Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Penn State Brandywine

Stephen J, "The New Nuclear Disorder: Challenges to Deterrence and Strategy," Ashgate Publishing, p. 154-160 What would a nuclear arms race in Asia look like, after the second decade AND line that permits neither reflection nor appropriate vetting of the information at hand.

Independently, harmonizing sustainable investment standards demonstrates U.S.-China global climate leadership
Hart et al., 6/13/16 (Melanie Hart, Pete Ogden, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Melanie Hart is a Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at the Center for American Progress. Pete Ogden is a Senior Fellow at the Center. Kelly Sims Gallagher is professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. 6-13-2016, "Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation," Center For American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/ // PD) International finance: Going green or brown? In the post-Paris era, AND be another constructive plank in the U.S.-China climate relationship.

====China has a huge incentive to accept collaboration on environmental standards —- it has a willingness to improve its environmental standards and enforcement but it needs greater expertise and experience —- can't rely on host government regulations to ensure effective protections==== On October 24 this year, 21 Asian countries signed an agreement in Beijing that AND development of the most populous and fastest-growing region in the world.
 * Ma 14 (Yuge Ma, DPhil Candidate at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, 12-5-2014, "The Environmental Implications of China's New Bank," Diplomat, http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-environmental-implications-of-chinas-new-bank/ // PD)**


 * Neg**

Ran: Went for: 
 * 1) T QPQ Condo
 * 2) T QPQ Uncondo
 * 3) Japan DA
 * 4) Consult Japan CP
 * 5) Warming Reps K
 * 6) Elections DA
 * 7) North Korea Airstrikes CP
 * 8) Russia DA
 * 9) Rising Expectations DA
 * 10) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Protectionism DA
 * 1) Consult Japan CP
 * 2) Japan DA
 * 3) Rising Expectations DA