DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2014.941319
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84930892361
论文题名: Foreign policy ‘trilemmas’: understanding China's stance on international cap-and-trade
作者: Huang Y ; , Bailis R
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 1469-3062
EISSN: 1752-7457
出版年: 2015
卷: 15, 期: 4 起始页码: 494
结束页码: 516
语种: 英语
英文关键词: China
; foreign exchange policy
; foreign policy trilemma
; international cap-and-trade
; policy analogy
Scopus关键词: carbon emission
; climate change
; emissions trading
; environmental economics
; foreign policy
; international trade
; policy making
; sovereignty
; China
Scopus学科分类: nvironmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Atmospheric Science
英文摘要: This article uses a policy analogy approach to explore China's attitude toward the possibility of global carbon market integration, including the development of a common cap-and-trade market for the global civil aviation industry. Like in other foreign policy domains, in international cap-and-trade, China faces a ‘trilemma’ between carbon market integration, state sovereignty and policy flexibility. By referring to how China has approached a comparable trilemma in foreign exchange policy making, we analyse China's possible stance on international cap-and-trade. We argue that China will prefer to gradually establish and strengthen, to a limited extent, intergovernmental governance mechanisms, which allow nation-states to prioritize sovereignty and policy flexibility in carbon trading policy making. In the conclusion we use this argument to explain China's responses to the carbon-trading initiatives of Australia, the EU, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the World Bank. Policy relevance The international community has reached a consensus on the use of market mechanisms for mitigating climate change. While opposing the EU's plan to include Chinese airlines in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, China has started to co-explore with Australia the possibility of linking their carbon markets, and has adopted a supportive attitude toward the carbon trading initiatives led by the ICAO and the World Bank. Considering China's status as the largest emitting country of GHGs and its interdependence with major developed and developing countries, China's substantial participation would be crucial to the success of the global market-based efforts to reduce GHG emissions. This article presents an initial attempt to develop a better understanding of China's stance on international cap-and-trade. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/80418
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作者单位: School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China; School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, United States
Recommended Citation:
Huang Y,, Bailis R. Foreign policy ‘trilemmas’: understanding China's stance on international cap-and-trade[J]. Climate Policy,2015-01-01,15(4)