Will China Save the Planet?

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5095-3263-6
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 123 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 241 g

Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution, phasing out coal consumption and leading the development of a global system of green finance.

But as leading China environmental expert Barbara Finamore explains, it is anything but easy. The fundamental economic and political challenges that China faces in addressing its domestic environmental crisis threaten to derail its low-carbon energy transition. Yet there is reason for hope. China's leaders understand that transforming the world's second largest economy from one dependent on highly polluting heavy industry to one focused on clean energy, services and innovation is essential, not only to the future of the planet, but to China's own prosperity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finamore, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements 

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: China: The New Climate Torchbearer?

Chapter One: China’s Climate Diplomacy

Chapter Two: Dethroning Old King Coal

Chapter Three: Catalyzing the Clean Energy Revolution

Chapter Four: Jumpstarting the Electric Vehicle Industry

Chapter Five: Greening China’s Financial System

Epilogue: China in the Driving Seat

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Finamore is a Senior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She has over three decades of experience in environmental law and energy policy, with a focus on China for twenty-five years. In 1996, she founded NRDC’s China Program, the first clean energy program to be launched by an international NGO.