China in the International Politics of Climate Change: A Foreign Policy Analysis

Bjørkum, Ida

The Fridtjof Nansen Institute

关键词: climate change;    climate policies;    negotiations;    developing countries;    Chinese policies;   

RP-ID  :  FNI Report 12/2005

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report looks into the developments in China’s political response to the threat of climate change from the late 1980s when the problem emerged on the international political agenda, until 2004. Three theoretically based explanatory models are employed to identify the factors that have influenced Chinese foreign policy-making on climate change in the past, and furthermore how these factors are likely to influence China’s future climate change policy. The three models emphasize respectively: national interests in terms of costs and benefits; domestic political bargaining; and learning through diffusion of knowledge and norms.