Towards a New Global Agreement under the Doha Climate Gateway: A Chinese Way

AuthorHui Zhang
Pages443-444
China
443
VII JEAIL 2 (2014)
Hui Zhang
The Doha Climate Gateway launched the second commitment period of the Kyoto
Protocol and restated the vision of a new global agreement binding all countries.
To reach the goal of the new agreement and further to save the Earth, the principles
      
interpretation. The common responsibility would be emphasized more than before,
and the differentiated responsibility might improve the feasibility to be operated
considering the principles of equity and respective capabilities. In climate change
conferences, China has shown its flexibility on the issue of a new agreement. As a
developing responsible power, China should contribute to addressing climate change
upon the call of common responsibility, but it also needs an appropriate differentiated
treatment according to its capability.
Keywords
New Global Agreement, Doha Climate Gateway, CBDR principle,
Common Responsibility, Differentiated Responsibility, Chinese Way
Towards a New Global
Agreement under the Doha
Climate Gateway:
A Chinese Way
Professor of law at Wuhan University School of Law and Institute of International Law, P.R.C. LL.B., LL.M., LL.D.
(Wuhan), Diploma (Paris 1). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6238-6672. This study was supported by China
National Social Sciences Foundation (Project No. 11AZD105) and the Key Research Institutes Project of China
Ministry of Education (Project No. 2009JJD820005). The author may be contacted at: fxyzh@whu.edu.cn / Address:
Luojiashan, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430072, China.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2014.7.2.07
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