英文摘要 |
Climate change is among the most significant subjects of debate in politics and economics. To avoid the imposition of international sanctions, the countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol have been devoted to energy saving and carbon reduction (ESCR). China as a developing country highly dependent on fossil fuels, however, is at crossroads when attempting to give equal consideration to ESCR and economic development. My research tentatively finds that China is adopting two major strategies: first, waiting and seeing without taking essential steps and second, proposing specious slogans for which a great deal of money has been invested. Despite its high economic growth, China is very likely to suffer slow economic progress if materializing those essential steps, which appear impractical with the fact that they will not necessarily be taken into serious consideration by local governments. Because the ideas of the U.S. and European countries still have varied in related issues, my conclusion tends to be that China's current strategy in response to international pressure is to remain vaguely inactive and see what is going to happen while taking a perfunctory attitude with specious slogans. |