Why Researching Climate Change Discourses in China?

Climate change politics and governance have been emerging as an important topic on international relations and political studies. Not surprisingly, China has been seen as a very important country within the global climate governance, having implemented its efforts on climate mitigation and adaption. But it is really important and interesting to know when and why China had changed its understandings of climate change issues. This thus employs the discourse approach to observe how China had been communicating climate change issues around the critical policy moments in 2007, 2009 and 2015.