This thesis focuses on the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter China and examines the dynamics between international norms and domestic politics. Specifically, this paper attempts to prove...Show moreThis thesis focuses on the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter China and examines the dynamics between international norms and domestic politics. Specifically, this paper attempts to prove that China’s position on climate change is evolving. As climate change fits in the environmental protection and economic development nexus, national interest is the basic motivation for China to participate in climate governance from a positivist perspective. But it is important to keep in mind that the international system is constructed by material as well as ideas. The EU is a leadership in global climate governance; consequently this thesis also argues that the EU as a normative power has driven diffusion of norms, and partially influenced China’s position on climate change.Show less
