Springer China’s Transition on Climate Change Communication and Governance: From Zero to Hero (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path)

This book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of China’s transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society. Nowadays, China shows strong leadership to push the process of global climate governance. It’s the first and fastest time in the past 40-year history of China’s Opening-up that China wins the international respect and trust in one of the issues of global governance. What experiences can be summarized? What dynamic situations and new possibilities emerged after Trump, the U.S. president announced to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? How to move forward based on the existing success? This timely book offers new lens for international readers to understand China’s effort domestically and internationally in the field of climate change and illustrate the outlook of the climate governance in the frame of win-win co-governance model.  Review     Review    From the Back Cover This book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of China’s transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society. Nowadays, China shows strong leadership to push the process of global climate governance. It’s the first and fastest time in the past 40-year history of China’s Opening-up that China wins the international respect and trust in one of the issues of global governance. What experiences can be summarized? What dynamic situations and new possibilities emerged after Trump, the U.S. president announced to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? How to move forward based on the existing success? This timely book offers new lens for international readers to understand China’s effort domestically and internationally in the field of climate change and illustrate the outlook of the climate governance in the frame of win-win co-governance model.  About the Author Dr. Binbin Wang has devoted her career to leadership on achieving sustainable development goals, bringing decades of expertise and experience in the synergistic effect between climate change and other SDGs, i.e. poverty alleviation, biodiversity, economic development and social justice, etc. Dr. Wang is currently Executive Secretary of Global Climate Change and Green Development Fund, an initiative from Mr. XIE Zhenhua, China’s Special Representative on Climate Change Affairs, to mobilize the social capital and investment to support the global green transformation trend and seating in the core leadership team of Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Tsinghua University. She is also a Research Fellow of School of International Studies at Peking University. Prior to her current role, she spent eight years with Oxfam, one of the most influential international humanitarian and developmental organizations, and led the team to advocate to policy makers in China to consider the benefits of the vulnerable people through setting up a bridge between climate change and poverty alleviation. Dr. Wang hosted a pilot of the Low-Carbon Adaptation and Poverty Alleviation Plan (LAPA) in a small village in the Shaanxi Province from 2012 to 2015, this pilot was then awarded the ‘Pioneer of Change’, one of the 21 Best Cases on Low Carbon Sustainable Development in Developing Countries.    As the first Ph.D. on climate change communication in China, Dr. Wang co-founded the local think tank based in Beijing a decade ago, the China Center for Climate Change Communication, which hosted national public perception surveys to evaluate the public opinions on climate. The key findings were record on China’s Annual National White Paper on Clima