Abstract
As two major powers that are willing to lead the design and evolution of the global climate regime, the EU and China have maintained a dialogue on climate change and biodiversity while clashing over other economic and political issues. This paper investigates EU-China relations in the global climate regime by briefly analysing three main areas that are key for the global green transition: standardization, green taxonomy, and the renewables sector. The paper claims that EU-China relations in the global climate regime develop within the dialectical collaboration-competition nexus, showing moments of consensus as well as contention between the two major powers in the three selected cases.
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Abbreviations
- BRI:
-
Belt and Road Initiative
- CCP:
-
Chinese Communist Party
- CGT:
-
Common Ground Taxonomy
- ETS:
-
Emissions Trading System
- EU:
-
European Union
- GIP:
-
Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road
- IPSF:
-
International Platform on Sustainable Finance
- NDCs:
-
Nationally Determined Contributions
- NDRC:
-
National Development and Reform Commission
- PBOC:
-
People’s Bank of China
- PV:
-
Photovoltaics
- SDOs:
-
Standard-Developing Organizations
- SMEs:
-
Small and Medium Enterprises
- SOE:
-
State-owned Enterprises
- UK:
-
United Kingdom
- US:
-
United States
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Altun, S., Ergenc, C. The EU and China in the global climate regime: a dialectical collaboration-competition relationship. Asia Eur J 21, 437–457 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-023-00664-y
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