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国際公共政策研究. 2022, 26(2), p. 17-38

China and Climate Change : Exploring a Non-Western Climate Discourse

Zhang, Peizhi

大阪大学国際公共政策学会

英語

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2022-03

In recent years, addressing climate change has become a top priority of China’s national agenda. There has been a rich body of literature studying China’s position in climate policies and negotiations. However, a detailed analysis of the symbolic meaning and internal diversity of its position is lacking. This paper analyzes these issues through a discourse and strategic narrative lens, examining the connotations, characteristics, and construction of China’s climate discourse. Four climate discourses in China are identified: pragmatic ecological modernization, climate nationalism, ecological civilization, and collaborative civil environmentalism. These discourses are consistent with China’s national policy as well as its global vision. The dynamics of discourse adaptation, localization, integration, and innovation in the process of their construction, seen against the complex and changing domestic and international context, highlight the identitybased and issue-based strategic narratives. China provides a good example of a “non-Western” climate discourse that demonstrates an emerging country’s interests and climate practices , and offers the possibility of breaking the North-South impasse in global climate politics. This paper concludes that climate change is an important entry point for China to gain greater influence on global governance through implicit discursive strategies.

10.18910/86844

86844

China and Climate Change : Exploring a Non-Western Climate Discourse

Zhang, Peizhi

大阪大学国際公共政策学会

英語

2022-03

国際公共政策研究

26

2

17

38

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/86844

10.18910/86844

https://doi.org/10.18910/86844