Analyst, Georgios Zazias, presented the EU long term strategy in the opening session of the Meeting hosted by the Energy Foundation China and organized by IIASA and the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) at the University of Maryland. The workshop explored research needs for informing China’s mid- and long-term development, energy, and environmental strategies. The discussion aimed to understand how to expand this area of research and to better utilize analytical capability to address the linkages between long-term strategies and near-term policies and between climate policies and other societal goals in support of actual decision making.