Emissions trading and climate diplomacy between Europe and China

Policy brief by Olivia Gippner for the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

The Paris COP21 Summit has been hailed as a major breakthrough by Europeans and Chinese alike. Drawing on two sets of interviews carried out in Beijing in 2012 and 2016, Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow Olivia Gippner looks at the dynamics of climate policy adoption in China.

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