ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies four major actors in China's climate change–related policies, namely the relevant government departments, the think tanks, enterprises, and the civil society. It examines the behaviour and power of these actors and their influence on China's climate-related policies. The analysis concludes that China's climate-related policies, relevant central ministries, the think tanks, and large energy state-owned enterprises play a predominant role. In contrast, small-scale private renewable energy companies, the media, the environmental non-government organisations, and the general public, although wishing to have their say in China's climate-related policies, are in a much weaker position. By making clear the different degrees of influence of the above actors, this chapter paints a picture of competing interests, agendas, and fragmentation in China's climate-related policy development, which paves a foundation for the analyses in later chapters.
