Dynamic Climate Change Discourses in China

Climate change issues have been discursively constructed over time from 2007 to 2015 across the critical policy moments. A wide range of actors have been cited as news sources to construct climate issues across the newspapers. It is very interesting to find that the three climate discourses in China have been evolving differently. This work identifies the decline of the development discourse, the rise of ecological modernisation discourse and the emergence of low carbon discourse from 2007 to 2015. The discursive evolution shows a potential for constructing the low carbon discourse.