Comparative method of decreasing of Greenhouse Gas Emission policy between Mainland China and Taiwan

[[abstract]]Since Global warming not only lead to an extreme change of the environment, but also became a threat of the human beings, it's no doubt that the international community should work together to ease off the change, and reduction of greenhouse gas emission must be done in line with the Kyoto Protocol. The large amount of greenhouse gas emission that accompanies China's rapid economic rise has not only caused disasters in China's environment and ecology, but also accelerated global environmental changes. Because of geographic approximaty between the two countries, the environmental issue in China is an urgent concern not only for China, but also for Taiwan. This geographic bound puts the two sides in both a competitive and cooperative relation at the same time in reducing greenhouse gas emission. First, this study will try to analyze the different reduction behaviors in the two countries using the framework of international security cooperation analysis. After getting a comprehensive understanding of the two countries' reduction behaviors, this paper will then analyze the items on which the two sides may be engaged in cooperation or competition. Next, the paper will focus on the name and identity Taiwan could use in negations on greenhouse gas reduction--whether Taiwan can participate in these meetings as an entity or has to do as part of China. Last, the paper will discuss cross-strait cooperation on reducing emission of greenhouse gas. There will be an analysis on which policies in each side's reduction agenda may be suitable for cooperation, and which of these policies may help establish the mechanism for cross-strait cooperation. A discussion on which political mechanism may accelerate the cooperation will then follow.