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Shaping China’s Climate Diplomacy: Wealth, Status, and Asymmetric Interdependence

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Erschienen in: Journal of Chinese Political Science | Ausgabe 2/2016

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China’s diplomacy in the post-Kyoto Protocol international climate change negotiations (ICCN) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) bears proactive and reactive feature. On the one hand, China has proactively built several new coalitions including its bilateral climate coalition with India, the BASIC group and the Like-minded Developing Countries (LMDCs) while maintaining its traditional coalition with the Group-77 and China to facilitate its bargaining power against developed countries and their negotiating blocs. On the other hand, however, China has reactively made significant compromises to its negotiation partners on mitigation obligations of greenhouse gas emissions. Such a proactive and reactive feature of China’s climate diplomacy has been mainly shaped by: first, China’s desire to maximize its wealth/profits from its participation in the Clean Development Mechanism; secondly, its desire to build a responsible great power status in the international system; and thirdly, its asymmetric dependence on the developed countries especially the US and the EU for transferring climate mitigation-related technologies.

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Titel: Shaping China’s Climate Diplomacy: Wealth, Status, and Asymmetric Interdependence
verfasst von: Fuzuo Wu
Publikationsdatum: 30.04.2016
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Chinese Political Science / Ausgabe 2/2016
Print ISSN: 1080-6954
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6357
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-016-9404-4

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