Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 China's participation in global climate politics; 2 Is China's negotiating position responsible?; 3 China's energy and environmental bureaucracy; 4 Largest beneficiary from carbon trade; 5 China's efforts to promote clean energy; 6 Controversial alternatives: great leap forward in hydro and nuclear energy; 7 Tianjin: model city of low-carbon economy; 8 Emerging civil society in China's climate politics; 9 Conclusion: motivations behind policy consistencies and variations; Bibliography; Index.

To understand China's climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the Kyoto Protocol; it stubbornly refuses to accept any emission cutting obligations, but has gradually taken the lead in developing renewable energies and carbon trading business; it accuses western countries of their hypocrisy and irresponsibility, but ironically maintains close cooperation with them on low-carbo.