Discourse Analysis Of Global Environmental Governance In The Post Epidemic Era

The post-COVID-19 world is a world in which all countries depend on each other as never before.In the field of global environmental governance,it is impossible for any country to solve the global environmental problems alone.In the field of environmental governance,a more urgent need for global cooperation has emerged under the impact of risks.As the largest developing country and the largest developed country in the world,China and the United States respectively,the results of their dialogue and actions will affect the direction of global environmental governance.The Woodrow Wilson International Scholars Center in the United States is an "excellent think tank" for regional studies.The "China Environment Forum"(CEF)section of the think tank has a history of more than 20 years of research and attention on environmental governance in China and neighboring Asian countries.,has rich practical experience in environmental governance and a professional theoretical perspective.This paper takes the discourse-historical analysis(DHA)in critical discourse analysis(CDA)and the rhetoric theory of state and institution image as the research path,by switching the context and synthesizing the analysis methods of multiple discourse subjects,and using word frequency statistics as an auxiliary means,An analysis of 145 China-related texts produced by the Wilson Center’s China Environmental Forum(CEF)between December 2019 and June 2022.This study finds that the China-related governance attitude presented by the China-related discourse at the China Environment Forum is consistent and unified.First,the presentation of China’s image by the forum’s environmental discourse highlights China’s growing responsibility for international environmental governance.CEF has a more concerned evaluation perspective on China’s international environmental governance than the local one.Secondly,CEF experts and their cooperating scholars have mixed praises and criticisms in their China-related statements and evaluations,and their criticisms are often combined with the current actual governance effectiveness in China,and they usually give suggestions at the same time after the criticisms.Thirdly,CEF’s evaluation tends to point directly to governance effectiveness.When pointing out where governance fails or needs to be improved,they tend to make the government the main body responsible for governance.In the end,CEF was basically affirmative of China’s domestic environmental governance,but made criticisms and suggestions on the status quo of China’s overseas environmental governance.At the same time,there are also misunderstandings about some of China’s actions in the CEF research.In this regard,this paper argues that the international environmental governance of major countries needs to carry out knowledge dialogues from multiple dimensions such as cultural governance,international responsibility,and political responsibility.At the same time,this study further calls for the integration of China’s environmental governance research results into the vast ocean of the global knowledge market,actively promoting the "knowledge produced in China" to go abroad,and allowing the knowledge production of domestic scholars to accept the competition and testing of the international thought market.