China is Capable of Leading Global Climate Governance
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ecological civilization is the only way to solve the global crisis of climate change.
China is working hard to build ecological civilization and share the benefits with other
countries through specific measures such as forming strategic ideas for ecological
civilization construction, expanding green transformation and development models,
and creating an ecological civilization system.
In May 2016, the United Nations Environment Programme released a report titled
“Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets: Strategies and Actions
for China’s Ecological Civilization,” which introduces the guiding principles, basic
concepts, policies and measures for building of an ecological civilization in China,
particularly the integration of ecological civilization into its national development
plans—an approach showing that China is determined to embark on the path of
development through a green and low-carbon circle, avoid the predicament of the
development paradigm of industrial civilization, and provide Chinese wisdom and
solutions for achieving global ecological security and sustainable development.
While building an ecological civilization at home, China has also actively participated in global environmental governance, implemented international environmental
conventions, and achieved remarkable results. With the help of the green Belt and
Road Initiative, and South-South cooperation projects, China has been sharing its
experience in green development and environmental protection, in an effort to
promote China’s green technology and standards to a larger audience. Moreover,
China has advocated building a community with a shared future for mankind, seeking
a new climate governance plan for mutual benefits and win–win results that provide
new opportunities and development models for resolving the global environmental
crisis. In this process, China’s brilliant ecological ideas are constructive to the establishment of global ecological civilization, the formation of theoretical framework,
and policy arrangements.
Finally, China will hold high the banner of building an ecological civilization
to participate in global climate and environmental governance, adjust its role and
position, guide the global efforts in building a community with a shared future for
mankind, advocate shared responsibility for climate change, and lead developing
countries to tackle climate change, in order to share its benefits reaped from building
an ecological civilization and transition to green development with other developing
countries, while making contributions to global climate security and sustainable
development.
3. Adhering to multilateralism and leading the new process of global climate
governance
Although the political structure of a multipolar world has been formed, the power of
speech of Western countries such as Europe and the United States in global governance has yet to be fundamentally changed. With the change in the model of the US’s
development as the priority and the decline of the European Union as a whole, the
international community has expressed a different voice, saying that China is actively
participating in global governance and thus should lead global climate governance.
On January 17, 2017, President Xi Jinping emphasized at the Davos Summit in
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ecological civilization is the only way to solve the global crisis of climate change.
China is working hard to build ecological civilization and share the benefits with other
countries through specific measures such as forming strategic ideas for ecological
civilization construction, expanding green transformation and development models,
and creating an ecological civilization system.
In May 2016, the United Nations Environment Programme released a report titled
“Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets: Strategies and Actions
for China’s Ecological Civilization,” which introduces the guiding principles, basic
concepts, policies and measures for building of an ecological civilization in China,
particularly the integration of ecological civilization into its national development
plans—an approach showing that China is determined to embark on the path of
development through a green and low-carbon circle, avoid the predicament of the
development paradigm of industrial civilization, and provide Chinese wisdom and
solutions for achieving global ecological security and sustainable development.
While building an ecological civilization at home, China has also actively participated in global environmental governance, implemented international environmental
conventions, and achieved remarkable results. With the help of the green Belt and
Road Initiative, and South-South cooperation projects, China has been sharing its
experience in green development and environmental protection, in an effort to
promote China’s green technology and standards to a larger audience. Moreover,
China has advocated building a community with a shared future for mankind, seeking
a new climate governance plan for mutual benefits and win–win results that provide
new opportunities and development models for resolving the global environmental
crisis. In this process, China’s brilliant ecological ideas are constructive to the establishment of global ecological civilization, the formation of theoretical framework,
and policy arrangements.
Finally, China will hold high the banner of building an ecological civilization
to participate in global climate and environmental governance, adjust its role and
position, guide the global efforts in building a community with a shared future for
mankind, advocate shared responsibility for climate change, and lead developing
countries to tackle climate change, in order to share its benefits reaped from building
an ecological civilization and transition to green development with other developing
countries, while making contributions to global climate security and sustainable
development.
3. Adhering to multilateralism and leading the new process of global climate
governance
Although the political structure of a multipolar world has been formed, the power of
speech of Western countries such as Europe and the United States in global governance has yet to be fundamentally changed. With the change in the model of the US’s
development as the priority and the decline of the European Union as a whole, the
international community has expressed a different voice, saying that China is actively
participating in global governance and thus should lead global climate governance.
On January 17, 2017, President Xi Jinping emphasized at the Davos Summit in