TY - JOUR
T1 - The position of the Low Carbon Growth Partnership (LCGP)
T2 - at the end of Japan’s navigation between the Kyoto Protocol and the APP
AU - Oh, Chaewoon
AU - Matsuoka, Shunji
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2015/4/10
Y1 - 2015/4/10
N2 - A new climate change institutional package, the East Asia Low Carbon Growth Partnership (LCGP), has been recently developed. The LCGP has significant implications because it was initiated by Japan, which has navigated between the Kyoto Protocol (KP) and the Asia–Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP) but ended the navigation by announcing its intention not to participate in the second commitment period of the KP. This paper investigates the position of the LCGP on the spectrum drawn by the KP and the APP using the theoretical ground of normative contestation. Results show that the normative stance of the LCGP is skewed toward the APP; however, the LCGP differentiates itself from the APP by its own functional properties and through its institutional fit with another regional institution, the East Asia Summit. The LCGP puts another complexion on global climate change governance.
AB - A new climate change institutional package, the East Asia Low Carbon Growth Partnership (LCGP), has been recently developed. The LCGP has significant implications because it was initiated by Japan, which has navigated between the Kyoto Protocol (KP) and the Asia–Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP) but ended the navigation by announcing its intention not to participate in the second commitment period of the KP. This paper investigates the position of the LCGP on the spectrum drawn by the KP and the APP using the theoretical ground of normative contestation. Results show that the normative stance of the LCGP is skewed toward the APP; however, the LCGP differentiates itself from the APP by its own functional properties and through its institutional fit with another regional institution, the East Asia Summit. The LCGP puts another complexion on global climate change governance.
KW - Asia–Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
KW - Climate change governance
KW - East Asia Low Carbon Growth Partnership
KW - Japan
KW - Kyoto Protocol
KW - Normative position
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U2 - 10.1007/s10784-013-9219-0
DO - 10.1007/s10784-013-9219-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878730809
VL - 15
SP - 125
EP - 140
JO - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
JF - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
SN - 1567-9764
IS - 2
ER -