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Public-Private Partnerships to Address Global Environmental Problem: Sino-US Cooperation on Climate Change and Energy




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Fang-Ting CHENG

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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2017.03.004

Institution of Developing Economies, JETRO, Chiba-shi, Chiba, Japan

The study indicates that public-private partnerships (PPPs) can play “strategic”, “practical”, or “regulative” roles by making use of “instrumental”, “institutional”, and “normative” approaches in tackling political issues between countries. PPPs have often been discussed in studies of urban development, service provision, health care, and so on, but they have rarely been analyzed in terms of international relations and political problems on global environmental issues. This study takes an environmental problem—Sino-US energy and climate change cooperation—as a case study to inspect the possible roles and approaches of PPPs. Sino-US cooperation has been launched such as under the Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S&ED) by both administrations, which has significantly contributed to their reconciliation of domestic abatement policies in climate change, environmental protection, and energy. The establishment of schemes such as the Ten-Year Framework for Cooperation on Energy and Environment (TYF), the EcoPartnerships, and wide-ranging dialogues and initiatives on clean energy and clean vehicles, in which both public and private actors participate, are among the important approaches of facilitating bilateral cooperation. The study concludes that these schemes have played strategic and practical roles in strengthening the degree of mutual trust and in facilitating the progress of cooperation, although more investigations are needed to considerate their regulative roles. The application of instrumental, institutional, and normative approaches have been observed through the implementation of the TYF and EcoPartnerships.

 Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), Sino-US relations, Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S&ED), Eco-Partnerships, energy efficiency, and climate change, public-private partnerships (ppps), S&ED, climate change, sino-us relations, energy efficiency