ABSTRACT
The chapter analyzes the Chinese discourse on global climate change. As such, the issue of climate change in security studies has evolved from debates about environmental security. In addition, on the level of practice, environmental concerns have a longer history than the specific macrosecuritization of climate change. Accordingly, the chapter relates the People’s Republic of China's (PRC’s) macropoliticization of climate change to its longer-view approach to the treatment and role of the environment in China. This shows how environmental concerns have been raised high on the discoursive political agenda, yet how climate change is regarded more as an issue of international politics than national security in the PRC.
