Implementing a Low-Carbon Future
Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities
Series: Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 January 2026
- ISBN 9780197757420
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 237x167x16 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
In an era of intensified geopolitics and of national-level political gridlock, subnational governments can potentially play an essential role in combating global climate change. Can subnational governments introduce and sustain climate policy actions through changes in political leadership? Why are some local areas doing better than others in delivering on their climate goals?
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In an era of intensified geopolitics and of national-level political gridlock, subnational governments can potentially play an essential role in combating global climate change. Can subnational governments introduce and sustain climate policy actions through changes in political leadership? Why do some local areas continue to deliver on their climate goals while others struggle to do so?
Despite being the world's largest carbon emitter, China has pledged to attain peak carbon before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. Since the early 2010s, Beijing has selected more than one hundred local low-carbon pilots at the township, municipal, and provincial levels engage in policy experimentation. Their aim is policy solutions to decouple local economic growth from the increased use of fossil fuels. In Implementing a Low-Carbon Future, Weila Gong examines four cases of such policy experimentation and finds that local implementation outcomes were mixed. Notably, Gong finds variation in levels of low-carbon policy institutionalization across the case studies. This includes varying successes of the standards, regulations, and laws put into place through these policy experiments.
Based on original research ncluding expert interviews, comparative case studies, and process tracing of the low-carbon policy experimentation in these pilot cities, comparative case studies, and process-tracing of Gong opens the black box of the subnational climate policy process in China's centralized political system and identifies mid-level local bureaucrats as playing an essential "bridge leader" role in successful implementation.
China is the world's largest emitter of warming gases and is now doing a lot to learn how to cut its pollution. In this thoughtful book, Weila Gong shows that much of innovation is coming from big cities led by entrepreneurial bureaucrats who see the future in clean industry. She shows why some cities are doing a lot more than others and why this leadership is politically sustainable. It's a book that adds not just hope but also deeper understanding of how subnational policy actually works.
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction
2 Subnational Engagement in China's Low-Carbon Energy Transitions
3 A Leadership Approach to Low-Carbon Policy Implementation
4 Substantive Engagement: Shenzhen
5 Performative Engagement: Nanchang
6 Symbolic Engagement: Zhenjiang
7 Sporadic Engagement: Xiamen
8 Rethinking Subnational Climate Leadership in China and Beyond
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