Exploring China's Climate Change Policy from both International and Domestic Perspectives.

The article examines China's policies on greenhouse gas mitigation and climatic change prevention. A dual track exists which reflects both an effort to maintain a basic continuity of policy while maintaining flexibility to change as events warrant. Active involvement in negotiations to create international cooperation on greenhouse gas mitigation reflects China's main foreign policy objectives of enhancing its image and expressing its solidarity with developing countries. Efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions inside China reflect a balance between the government's increased awareness of the need for environmental protection and its main priority of continued economic development.