Sino-African Subnational Actors in Environmental and Climate Governance Cooperation: Current Status, Challenges, and Strategies
Wang Da, Wang Xiaohan
摘要：随着《巴黎协定》的生效，全球应对气候变化策略由自上而下的强制减排模式转变为自下而上的自主贡献模式，次国家行为体在全球环境与气候治理领域逐渐崭露头角。中国与非洲国家的合作日益深入次国家层面，尤其在绿色经济、清洁能源和农业等领域，地方政府、企业和社区组织之间的互惠合作不断加强。尽管取得了初步进展，当前中非次国家行为体环境与气候治理合作仍面临资金和技术支持不足、政策执行障碍、文化认同差异、治理能力缺乏和国际竞争压力等深层次挑战。为了进一步推动中非次国家行为体在气候治理中的有效合作，本文从四个方面提出对策建议：通过借鉴日本的地方合作经验，促进民间力量的参与；创新并完善中非次国家层级的气候合作交流机制；优化现有的合作模式，强化地方政府与社区组织之间的协同效应；聚焦气候监测、农业和蓝碳等关键议题，推动政策的精准对接与执行。
关键词：中非合作；气候治理；非洲；次国家行为体
Abstract:With the adoption of the Paris Agreement, global strategies for addressing climate change have shifted from a top-down, mandatory emission reduction approach to a bottom-up, nationally determined contribution model. Subnational actors have increasingly emerged as key players in environmental and climate governance at the global level. In particular, cooperation between China and African countries has deepened at the subnational level in various domains such as green economy, clean energy and agriculture. This has led to mutual cooperation among local governments, businesses and community organisations, which continues to be strengthened. However, despite the initial progress, the current collaboration between Chinese and African subnational actors in environmental and climate governance has faced several deep-rooted challenges, including insufficient funding and technical support, barriers to policy implementation, cultural differences, governance capacity issues and pressure from international competition. To further enhance the effectiveness of subnational cooperation in climate governance, this study offers strategic recommendations for four key areas. The first pertains to leveraging Japan’s experience in local cooperation to encourage the involvement of civil society, followed by innovating and refining climate cooperation mechanisms at the subnational level between China and Africa. The third denotes the optimisation of the existing cooperation models to strengthen collaboration between local governments and community organisations. Lastly, cooperation should focus on key issues such as climate monitoring, agriculture and blue carbon to promote targeted and effective policy alignment and execution.
Keywords: China-Africa Cooperation；Climate Governance; Africa; SubNational Actors
基金资助：云南大学第十四届研究生科研创新项目“撒南非洲次国家行为体参与环境和气候变化适应的角色和作用研究”（KC—22223063）的研究成果；云南大学第十五届研究生科研创新项目：非洲地区跨境水资源争端的法律问题研究（KC-23234646）。
