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Confronting The Climate Challenge: Convergence and Divergence between the EU and China

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China, the European Union, and the International Politics of Global Governance

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Global climate change poses observed impacts and future risks to the international community and is one of the major issues on the agenda of global governance. In order to reduce and manage the impacts and risks related to climate change, international efforts over the last two decades have seen the evolution of global climate change governance. While a diverse range of fora have taken up the issue of climate change since 2007, the climate change regime within the United Nations (UN) system is recognized as the leading institutional arrangement of global climate governance, with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol as the legal basis. Tough negotiations continue toward a possible new global climate change agreement reached at the end of 2015.

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Yan, B., Torney, D. (2016). Confronting The Climate Challenge: Convergence and Divergence between the EU and China. In: Wang, J., Song, W. (eds) China, the European Union, and the International Politics of Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514004_12

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