Implementing a low-carbon future : climate leadership in Chinese cities /
In an era of intensified geopolitics and of national-level political gridlock, subnational governments can potentially play an essential role in combating global climate change. Can subnational governments introduce and sustain climate policy actions through changes in political leadership? How can...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Studies in comparative energy and environmental politics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In an era of intensified geopolitics and of national-level political gridlock, subnational governments can potentially play an essential role in combating global climate change. Can subnational governments introduce and sustain climate policy actions through changes in political leadership? How can we understand why some local areas have, and continue to, deliver on their climate goals while other areas may have set goals but have struggled to deliver them? Despite being the world's largest carbon emitter, China has pledged to attain peak carbon before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. Since the early 2010s, Beijing has selected more than one hundred local low-carbon pilots at municipal and provincial levels to engage in policy experimentation. In this book, Weila Gong examines four cases of such policy experimentation and finds that local implementation outcomes were mixed. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (some color), map. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197757451 0197757456 9780197757444 0197757448 9780197757437 019775743X |