Climate Governance in China - Policy Diffusion of Emissions Trading in Shanghai and Hubei

This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across sub-national regions and between governance levels in China.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
1 Introduction
China's role in the global transformation
Lack of transformation governance research on China
The fundamentals of policy diffusion
About this book’s approach
2 Climate governance and policymaking in China
The Tiao-Kuai system
Climate policy and ETS in China: from piloting to national policy
The ETS pilots
Institutional arrangements for climate policy in China
3 Shanghai’s ETS and diffusion experience
ETS policy developments
Shanghai’s institutional setup
Policy diffusion mechanisms
Policy entrepreneurs
4 Hubei’s ETS and diffusion experience
ETS policy developments
Hubei’s institutional setup
Policy diffusion mechanisms
Policy entrepreneurs
5 Conclusion: The role of policy diffusion in China’s climate transformation
Shanghai and Hubei: A comparison of diffusion patterns
Diffusion mechanisms
Institutions and actors
Conceptual implications
Practical implications
6 Recent developments and a view ahead
The influence of national policies and politics
Progressive regions continue to expand their carbon markets and interact with others
External influences on new dynamics in China's ETS policy diffusion
The dawn of a new era
Appendix
Index

Summary

This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across sub-national regions and between governance levels in China.

Product details

• Authors: Maia Haru Hall, Lina Li, Lina Hall Li
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032351025
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235102-5
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; China, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, Shanghai, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols, Hubei