China and Climate change

Joanna I Lewis, assistant professor at the Georgetown University examines the impact of climate change facing China, its implications, Beijing's response and that of the world. In an article with International Affairs, "Climate change and security: examining China’s challenges in a warming world", she states that China's national stability would come under threat if Beijing staked its future exclusively on a policy of high growth fueled by high emissions and concludes that although it was unrealistic to expect China to sacrifice economic growth to mitigate adverse effects of climate change, these two goals would converge sufficiently to avert open clash with its regional neighbors or Western trading partners.