Development Demands And Climate Management

The paper based on the relation of development and climate change governance,classified the basic political pattern of global climate governance. The paper mainlyillustrated the stances and policies of China and the factors related to development.Ever since the United Nations launched the talks on climate change in1990, theworld’s game on it has greatly intensified. China, as the largest developing country,it’s stances on climate change not only affects its’ own development, but also plays animportant role in international reduction emission and reach of new pacts.The paper conducted a historical analysis on China’s participation in climatechange governance. China’s participation will be divided into four stages in this paperto analyze the characteristics of China’s stances: the first stage, mild participation, thatis, the preliminary stage, China was cautious and conservative, staying at the level ofclimate technological breakthrough; second, introverted participation stage, focusingon China’s domestic system construction; the third stage, active participation stage,China showed more varieties of its positions, constructing the platform of domesticpublic participation, no longer depending solely on the United Nations frame, but alsotend to be more elicited; the fourth stage, the width and depth of China’s participationhas been updated, China’s NGOs appeared to participate in the UN climate talks.China, in the international climate negotiations, tended to be more and more active.Basing on the theory of development stages and cost-interest, the paper focused on therelationship between China’s stances on global climate change governance and it’spursuit of development.At the international level, Europe and the United States once with differencesbegan to interflow, aiming at asking developing countries to share the burden, whilethe developing countries’ internal differentiation became more obvious. The problemChina faces is, as the economy improved, China’s identity of developing country isbecoming vague. On the contrary, it’s accountability is more intense. This paperargues that China, as a developing country, have to deal with the dilemma between development and global climate governance. China’s challenge lies at how to debugcontradiction, establish the internal climate change mechanism and catch theopportunity to be a creator of the mechanism.