ABSTRACT
Nation-states across the globe, including China and Japan jointly were brought together for ‘a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so’. The existing model constructed and implemented to examine how environmental discourses and the norms that underpin them are diffused across different communicative channels and networks at the national and international levels. In 2015 most of the world’s nations agreed to the terms spelled out in the Paris Agreement, which was adopted by consensus at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In the same year, the UN announced the Sustainable Development Goals which comprise a universal set of targets and indicators that ‘UN member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and political policies over the next 15 years’.
