Chen Gang is Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Since joining the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China’s environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively about the sustainable development of China. His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as The International Spectator, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He has also contributed a number of book chapters on China’s environmental governance, natural disaster management, and climate change politics to edited volumes published by Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, and other scholarly publishers. He constantly provides policy papers and consultancies to the Government of Singapore, and is frequently interviewed by media such as  Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency.

• Introduction  1. China’s Participation in Global Climate Politics  2. Is China’s Negotiating Position Responsible?  3. China’s Energy and Environmental Bureaucracy   4. Largest Beneficiary from Carbon Trade  5. China’s Effort to Promote Clean Energy   6. Controversial Alternatives: Great Leap Forward in Hydro and Nuclear Energy 7. Tianjin: Model City of Low-carbon Economy  8. Emerging Civil Society in China’s Climate Politics  9. Conclusion: Motivations behind Policy Consistencies and Variations

Chen Gang is Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Since joining the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China’s environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively about the sustainable development of China. His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as The International Spectator, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He has also contributed a number of book chapters on China’s environmental governance, natural disaster management, and climate change politics to edited volumes published by Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, and other scholarly publishers. He constantly provides policy papers and consultancies to the Government of Singapore, and is frequently interviewed by media such as  Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency.

• Introduction  1. China’s Participation in Global Climate Politics  2. Is China’s Negotiating Position Responsible?  3. China’s Energy and Environmental Bureaucracy   4. Largest Beneficiary from Carbon Trade  5. China’s Effort to Promote Clean Energy   6. Controversial Alternatives: Great Leap Forward in Hydro and Nuclear Energy 7. Tianjin: Model City of Low-carbon Economy  8. Emerging Civil Society in China’s Climate Politics  9. Conclusion: Motivations behind Policy Consistencies and Variations

Chen Gang is Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Since joining the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China’s environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively about the sustainable development of China. His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as The International Spectator, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He has also contributed a number of book chapters on China’s environmental governance, natural disaster management, and climate change politics to edited volumes published by Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, and other scholarly publishers. He constantly provides policy papers and consultancies to the Government of Singapore, and is frequently interviewed by media such as  Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency.

• Introduction  1. China’s Participation in Global Climate Politics  2. Is China’s Negotiating Position Responsible?  3. China’s Energy and Environmental Bureaucracy   4. Largest Beneficiary from Carbon Trade  5. China’s Effort to Promote Clean Energy   6. Controversial Alternatives: Great Leap Forward in Hydro and Nuclear Energy 7. Tianjin: Model City of Low-carbon Economy  8. Emerging Civil Society in China’s Climate Politics  9. Conclusion: Motivations behind Policy Consistencies and Variations