A Comparative Study on the Role of Sino-US Participation in Climate Governance in the Post-pandemic Era

Haoyu Gong, Yanyi Yang, Jieyu Zang

2021

Abstract

COVID-19 has profoundly affected the development process of global climate governance. Under the Biden administration, the United States announced its return to the multilateral cooperation framework on climate governance with an ambitious policy, which brought an opportunity for the interaction and cooperation with China. From the perspective of role theory, the roles of China and the United States on climate issues mainly depend on their interest cognition, identity perception and external expectations. Under the interest cognition of "realizing sustainable development" and the identity of "a responsible major country", China holds the expectation of seeking cooperation with the United States, while the United States regards participation in climate governance as a key action to achieve national recovery and effectively compete with China. Based on the governance roles, China and the United States have certain positive prospects for cooperation in promoting low-carbon transformation and implementing climate assistance, but there are also potential options for competition and confrontation. The role of the two states in climate governance will have a great impact on the framework of the Paris Agreement and their future interaction.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gong H., Yang Y. and Zang J. (2021). A Comparative Study on the Role of Sino-US Participation in Climate Governance in the Post-pandemic Era. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Public Management and Big Data Analysis - Volume 1: PMBDA, ISBN 978-989-758-589-0, pages 32-37. DOI: 10.5220/0011151200003437

in Bibtex Style

@conference{pmbda21,
author={Haoyu Gong and Yanyi Yang and Jieyu Zang},
title={A Comparative Study on the Role of Sino-US Participation in Climate Governance in the Post-pandemic Era},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Public Management and Big Data Analysis - Volume 1: PMBDA,},
year={2021},
pages={32-37},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011151200003437},
isbn={978-989-758-589-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Public Management and Big Data Analysis - Volume 1: PMBDA,
TI - A Comparative Study on the Role of Sino-US Participation in Climate Governance in the Post-pandemic Era
SN - 978-989-758-589-0
AU - Gong H.
AU - Yang Y.
AU - Zang J.
PY - 2021
SP - 32
EP - 37
DO - 10.5220/0011151200003437