Measuring China's Policy Stringency on Climate Change for 1954-2022.

ABSTRACT: Efforts on climate change have demonstrated tangible impacts through various actions and policies. However, a significant knowledge gap remains: comparing the stringency of climate change policies over time or across jurisdictions is challenging due to ambiguous definitions, the lack of a unified assessment framework, complex causal effects, and the difficulty in achieving effective measurement. Furthermore, China's climate governance is expected to address multiple objectives by integrating main effects and side effects, to achieve synergies that encompass environmental, economic, and social impacts. This paper employs an integrated framework comprising lexicon, text analysis, machine learning, and large-language model applied to multi-source data to quantify China's policy stringency on

SUBMITTER: Li B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11785789 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature