BAO, Siyu;
(2025)
The CPTPP “Lab” for Enhancing Climate-Related Civil Society Involvement: The Case of China and Beyond.
Asian Journal of International Law
pp. 1-25.
10.1017/s2044251325000013.
(In press).
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Abstract
Joining the line of free trade agreements involving civil society in climate change-related commitments, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) installs a public submissions and referral procedure (SRP) under its environmental chapter. China’s application to join the CPTPP and the peripheral role of civil society in its climate decision-making furnish a curious opportunity to contemplate dynamics between the SRP and domestic regimes with historically limited civil society involvement. The article cites China as an illustrative case to show how a state-centric approach to climate change, lacking civil society engagement, may render mitigation efforts unreliable, unsustainable, and inequitable. It argues that the submissions and referrals procedure (SRP)’s unique procedural features offer potential as a testing ground for building up previously constrained civil society involvement in climate decision-making. It also exposes the design flaws in the SRP that require reform to uphold its identified experimental value, regarding which several proposals are put forward.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The CPTPP “Lab” for Enhancing Climate-Related Civil Society Involvement: The Case of China and Beyond |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s2044251325000013 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/s2044251325000013 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Asian Society for International Law. his is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). |
| Keywords: | climate change, free trade agreement, civil society, CPTPP, trade and sustainable development |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206147 |
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