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China's Developmentalist Approach to Climate Governance

Mingzhe Zhu

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China has adopted a 'developmentalist approach' to climate governance. It entrusts the power of making and implementing climate policy to the governmental ministries and departments that administer industrial affairs, and allows them to achieve climate goals by using macroeconomic measures to transform the structure of industries and energies. This is reflected by the legal framework of climate governance in China. Traces of this approach can be found even at the genesis of this country's climate diplomacy and policy during the preparations for the United Nations conferences of 1988 to 1992. The developmentalism of climate governance was further consolidated between the two major institutional reforms of 1998 and 2018. In this period, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) did not only manage the daily operation of the National Leading Group on Climate Change, but also, with other industrial ministries, substantially contributed to the drafting of climate-related law. The developmentalist approach gave birth to a regulatory paradigm of 'governing by planning', which is producing positive outcomes while lacking public participation, transparency, and accountability.
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Mingzhe Zhu. China's Developmentalist Approach to Climate Governance. IUCN AEL Journal of Environmental Law, In press. ⟨hal-03855504⟩
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