Competition among purposes: The Chinese experience in the governance of climate change and energy transition

• Main Authors: GAO, Henry S., ZHOU, Weihuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: China; Climate Change; Energy Transition; Carbon Peak; Carbon Neutrality; Energy Governance; Trade Governance; Asian Studies; International Trade Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4300; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6258/viewcontent/Competition_Purposes_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Energy governance at the international level is fraught with difficulties due to the 'competition among purposes' between different bodies of international law. In this paper, we extend this thesis to argue that the same tension may be found in domestic energy governance. Drawing from Chin...