Identity,Interest And The Big Power's Cooperation

Climate change is becoming one of the biggest challenges to the human society in this century.Because of the elimination of greenhouse gas(GHG),now the climate warming became an important issue in the Global Governance.Under the ground of United Nations Framework Conventions on Climate Change(UNFCCC)in 1992,The International community plans to hold a meeting in the form of negotiations to push the concerted actions of tackling climate change of all contracting states every year.The core issue of the international climate negotiations is how to deliver the reducing responsibility of GHG and success to make a binding agreement.As the biggest GHG emitters and the economy entities in the world,China represents the developing countries and U.S.represents the developed countries.These two big powers became the key in the progress of global climate governance,which depend on whether they are willing to take the responsibility and make the promise to take actions of GHG reducing.In the International climate negotiations,the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 and the Paris climate conference in 2015 have paid a huge impaction on global climate governance.The former takes the goal of how to make the second phrases of Tokyo Climate institutions of GHG reducing,and the latter has the goal to make a long-time plan of GHG reducing after 2020.In the two negotiations,the choices of China and U.S.influence the global concerted actions on climate change.This dissertation focuses on the problem China and U.S how to make the transitions from conflict to cooperation in the Copenhagen and Paris negotiations.In the application of analysis of eclecticism,taking the realistic problem of the transition from conflict to cooperation between China and U.S.in international climate negotiations as the guide,the research goal of this dissertation is to discuss of the different actions of the big powers in global climate governance by the perspective of the interactions of interet and identity.After the investigation of the actions of China and U.S in the Copenhagen and Paris climate conferences,the research shows that there are two intervening mechanism variables which influenced the big powers' actions in International climate negotiations.As the response of global climate governance problem,under the impact of GHG reducing responsibility,Identity and Interest as the intervening mechanism which decide whether the big powers choose tocooperation or not.Affected by the identity mechanism,the big powers have two choices in International climate negotiations: responsers choose to cooperation and the nonresponsers not.Affected by the interest mechanism,the decreasing of national interest will make states don't choose to take responsibility,and the increasing will make the states take part in the global climate governance more actively.In the Copenhagen negotiation,China and U.S.both took their positions as the nonresponers and they believed that reducing actions of GHG was an action of decresing of national interest.At the end of this conference,the cooperation was failed.In the Paris negotiation,China and U.S.admitted the responsers' identity,and they took the development of domestic low carbon economy as the means of action of GHG reducing.These efforts finally made the big powers' cooperation successfully in global climate governance.