# Laurence Tubiana on electrification, climate science and cleantech trade

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COP veteran Laurence Tubiana has just shared her views on the 35x35 electrification goal, the need for science at the global stocktake and EU-China clean-tech trade.

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Tubiana was speaking at an event at the China pavilion on global climate governance, attended by Liu Zhenmin, Adair Turner, Jennifer Morgan, Nicholas Stern and others.

She opened her speech by saying “we should not be fatalist” about the overshoot of 1.5C. Ten years after the Paris Agreement, she said, the world is “now in an up cycle”.

China’s provision of clean-energy technology is playing a role in this upswing, she said.

On the electrification goal proposed by the Turkish presidency, Tubiana said countries must “accelerate electrification”, but that she would “love” for the emphasis to be on “clean” electrification.

She added: “We have the resources to do it, looking at my colleague in China.”

She also touched on the need for greater clean-energy technology cooperation between China and the EU.

The two powers have been locked in intense conflict over the impact of rising Chinese exports of clean-tech on European industry.

“We need China’s technology to come into Europe now”, she said. But she also noted that “we need joint investment” and the “support and investment of our Chinese colleagues”.

In her view, trade and investment of clean-tech must be kept “open and predictable”.

Finally, she urged that the second “[global stocktake](https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-is-the-global-stocktake-and-could-it-accelerate-climate-action)” has “access to the latest science”.

Last month, countries [were unable](https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-a-pivotal-ipcc-meeting-in-ethiopia-ended-in-profound-disappointment) to reach an agreement on the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) next set of reports, which many had wanted before the next global stocktake in 2028.

“I hope that China can continue to be a bridge between different countries’ point of view”, said Tubiana, adding:

“We need science to be there, and I count on China to be the torchbearer for the world’s science at the second global stocktake.”

Her messages were echoed by Turner, Morgan and others in their own speeches.