China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

• Main Author: Kopra, Sanna
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2018; University of Helsinki; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Rethinking Asia and International Relations
• Subjects: Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions; CCP Committee; China; China’s Climate Policy; Chinese Government; Chinese Politics; Climate Change; Climate change mitigation; Climate change mitigation > China; Climate Responsibility; Climatic changes; Climatic changes > Government policy > China; Cop Decision; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Electric Vehicles; Energy Policy; Environment; Environmental Policy; Environmental policy > China; Environmental policy and protocols; Environmental Politics; Great Power; Great Power Club; Great Power Responsibility; Green Gdp; Harmonious Society; Human Suffering; Interdisciplinary studies; International Climate Negotiations; International Climate Politics; International Politics; International relations; International Relations Theory; National People’s Congress; Political Science; Politics and government; Public Policy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Responsibility; Secondary Institutions; Society and Social Sciences; State Environmental Responsibility; State-centric Solidarism; The environment; World’s Largest Carbon Emitters; Zhao Qizheng; State Environmental Responsibility; China's Climate Policy; Human Suffering; English School Theory; Chinese Government; Cop Decision; Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions; Green Gdp; Secondary Institutions; Chinese Government's Commitment; World's Largest Carbon Emitters; Climate Responsibility; Electric Vehicles; Great Power Responsibility; CCP Committee; Energy Policy; State-centric Solidarism; International Climate Negotiations; CCP's Constitution; Climate Change; National People's Congress; International Climate Politics; Harmonious Society; Great Power Club; Zhao Qizheng
• ISBN: 1351365517; 9781351365512; 9781138557604; 1138557609; 1032094974; 9781032094977; 1351365509; 9781315151113; 1351365495; 9781351365505; 1315151111; 9781351365499
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315151113

As American leadership over climate change declines, China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities, this book explores how China’s rise to great power status transforms notions of great power responsibility in general and international climate politics in particular. The author looks empirically at the Chinese party-state’s conceptions of state responsibility, discusses the influence of those notions on China’s role in international climate politics, and considers both how China will act out its climate responsibility in the future and the broader implications of these actions. Alongside the argument that the international norm of climate responsibility is an emerging attribute of great power responsibility, Kopra develops a normative framework of great power responsibility to shed new light on the transformations China’s rise will yield and the kind of great power China will prove to be. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, China studies, foreign policy studies, international organizations, international ethics and environmental politics.