A Preliminary Study of the Formation of Policy Problems of the Chinese Communist Party for Climate Change (2005-2014)
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Chen, Wen-Kung
Abstract
Since the first World Climate Conference of UN in 1979, the issue of climate change has begun to drew people’s attention and received the attention of the world of science for the first time. Then, in 1992, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development passed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since then, how to cope with the global climate change has become a focus of attention for every country.
With the appearance of the term “China’s Rise”, the development of the Chinese Communist Party has become incomparable and it has held an important position internationally. Facing the issue of global climate change, it cannot stay away because this has a direct impact on economic development. Thus, it’s stuck in a dilemma: it must strike a balance between developing its economy and responding to international requirements of action on climate change. Against this background, this paper discusses the internal and external factors that decide the Chinese Communist Party’s policy problems for climate change and learns about how they face and deal with such international issues in Post-Kyoto era, i.e. the third stage of international climate politics.
This paper includes 6 chapters. Chapter I is an introduction, i.e. the “prior knowledge” for reading this paper; it introduces the research reasons, ways and methods, relevant range and limits, concept definition, literature review, and above all, the research framework and chapter arrangement, from which people can know clearly the research focus of this paper. Chapter II is the theoretical basis of this paper; it finds a supporting point for the process from climate change issues, policy problems to policy formulation from “the relationship between climate issue, policy problems and policy-making”, and above all, how to distinguish the system agenda from institutional agenda in this process is also the focus of this chapter because it clarifies the concept of agenda setting which will be mentioned later. Chapter III summarizes how the Chinese Communist Party copes with the climate change, introduces the current situation of climate change globally and in China and analyzes the effects of climate change on the Chinese Communist Party, which is also the “cause” of this paper and finds a cause-and-effect relationship for the subsequent 2 chapters, making this paper achieve a sense of wholeness. Chapter IV tells the internal factors of agenda setting, which is mainly about the domestic situation, such as greenhouse effect, public response, environmental protection measures, shift in the view of development and the idea of sustainable development, etc. Chapter V tells the external factors of agenda setting, which is mainly about the international situation, such as practices of America and European Union, the proposal of Kyoto Protocol and actions of the United Nations, etc. Chapter VI is the conclusion; it arrives at the conclusion using the previous chapters and finds from researches that the Chinese Communist Party tackles climate change mainly by establishing related strategic principles and goals, perfecting legislation and positively promoting low carbon economy and climate diplomacy in the hope of not only solving domestic problems but also showing its image as a great power through international cooperation; then, it evaluates the research results and learns about its future direction and what needs to be strengthened; at last, it give suggestions about policies and follow-up studies based on the research results.
Besides, to strengthen the research of this paper, we conduct in-depth interviews with people of social movements, the industrial circle, specialists and scholars in the fields related to this issue based on purposive sampling and public policy research methods. And we know from this that the climate change issue is a global issue which cannot be solved in short time, but the policies of the Chinese Communist Party have spotted the problem; new factors may enter measures coping with climate change at any time, so the policies must be able to be adjusted accordingly; though China is a vast territory with a large population, it promotes policies more efficiently than other countries due to its political system, which can be said to be its advantage compared to other countries; these three arguments are also this paper’s evaluation of its future direction.
The policy that tackles climate changes is a part of the environment protection policy. It can be known from the exploration of the previous chapters and the results of depth interviews that how to tackle climate changes will become another arena of international politics. Because the weight of the Chinese Communist Party in the world has become greater, it is very positive in tackling climate change. However, it also faces contradiction between its highly developed economy and environmental protection. Therefore, how to adjust their relationship is big test for it.
Subjects
可再生能源
低碳經濟
環境保護
可持續發展
議程設定
減緩與調適
後京都時期
Type
thesis
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