China's Climate Policy

by Chen Gang

To understand China's climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the Kyoto Protocol; it stubbornly refuses to accept any emission cutting obligations, but has gradually taken the lead in developing renewable energies and carbon trading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415705207
• ISBN13: 9780415705202
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages