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China has realized the importance of matching the goal of fast industrialization and of raising the living standard of the population with the imperative of transitioning to an economy based on low carbon emissions and renewable energy sources. At the same time, the requirements of economic development, the dependence on oil-producing countries for energy supply, and the politics of world order transition put brakes to China’s compliance with the world climate policy. The chapter analyses how multilateral policymaking has won on multiple obstacles to forming the world climate policy despite the swinging attitude of the great powers, China included. The chapter spotlights China’s compliance with the climate policy in comparison with the other large greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters’ compliance.
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Attinà, F. (2023). China’s and the Great GHG Emitters’ Response to the World Climate Policy. In: Attinà, F., Feng, Y. (eds) China and World Politics in Transition. Global Power Shift. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27358-2_4
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