中国气候谈判立场研究——国家利益与国际责任的视角-research on chinas climate negotiation standpoint —— from the perspective of national interests and international responsibilities.docxVIP

II II Abstract Global climate change haves far-reaching effects on human beings, to which the international community and the governments pay more and more attentions, while in recent years the international climate change negotiations become an important subject of international political agenda. International climate change negotiations could be divided into two phases: the first phase is since signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to the entring into forc of Kyoto Protocol; the second phase is the international community how to arrange issues such as greenhouse gas emission reduction after the post-2012 year. Participating in international climate change negotiations, national interests and international obligations are the two important variables to determine the negotiation positions of China. However, singal national interests or international obligations could not explain the negotiation positions of China and hers changes. Simply pursuiting national interests while ignoring the international obligations of a result, China will be under enormous pressures from the international on emission reduction, damaging national image, and ultimately could not really fight for and preserve her national interests; too much emphasising on international obligations and ignoring or underestimating the importance of national interests will not in favor of Chinas economic development and peoples living standards, after all, right to development could not be eventually maintened, and promises could not be truly fulfill. Since Kyoto negotiations to the post-Kyoto negotiations still conducted in, as the participant and facilitator in the negotiatons, Chinas negotiation positions are subject to national interests and international obligations, two of which determine Chinas negotiation positions and political behaviors. On the one hand, China emphasizes on safeguarding her core interests on the survival and development: pursuiting economic developmen