From Kyoto to Glasgow: is Japan a climate leader?

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Can Asia's climate leader please step forward?

“…The existing research on Asia focuses on Japan's environmental governance (Harashima, 2000; Sakaguchi et al, 2021), Japan's failure to assume a leading international role (Gilson, 2021) and China's comparative discursive power (Wu et al, 2021) However, climate change is rising on the agenda in countries across Asia (Li et al, 2021) and consequently the scope for positive climate policy competition among the Asian states may also be greater.…”

Identifying, improving, and investing in national commitments to just transition: Reflections from Latin America and the Caribbean

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