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Climate policy in China: an overview

In: Standing up for a Sustainable World

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  • Ye Qi
  • Xiaofan Zhao
  • Nicholas Stern

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China has developed a system of climate policy over a course of three decades. The Chinese leadership initially treated the issue of climate change as a natural phenomenon to be addressed by scientists, and then as an international issue handled by diplomats, and finally as a strategic issue related to economic development and global governance and thus to be led by the top leadership. Climate policy implementation initially relied primarily on the government hierarchy and the government’s dominating influence on businesses. Gradually, economic incentives are added to the mechanisms of implementation. In particular, the carbon market is given high hope and expectation as a major instrument for climate policy implementation in China. Under the current administration, climate policy-making has not only moved up to the top leadership, but also given unprecedented significance as China’s opportunity to help reshape global governance.

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  • Ye Qi & Xiaofan Zhao & Nicholas Stern, 2020. "Climate policy in China: an overview," Chapters, in: Claude Henry & Johan Rockström & Nicholas Stern (ed.), Standing up for a Sustainable World, chapter 7, pages 76-102, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Brown, Austin L. & Sperling, Daniel & Austin, Bernadette & DeShazo, JR & Fulton, Lew & Lipman, Timothy & Murphy, Colin W & Saphores, Jean Daniel & Tal, Gil & Abrams, Carolyn & Chakraborty, Debapriya &, 2021. "Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt3np3p2t0, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.

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