A comparative study of clean energy policy in the sustainable development of China and United States

پژوهش نامه ایرانی سیاست بین الملل

Article 18, Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24, June 2024, Pages 437-464   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/irlip.2024.82487.1398

Authors

Arsalan Ghorbani Sheikhneshin¹; Shirin Haddad Zand^{* 2}

¹Professor of International Relations, Department of Law and Political Science, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

²PhD student of International Relations, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The developments of the 21st century led to transformations in the world's environment in such a way that the issues related to environmental developments and events turned from a domestic issue into a global one. Therefore, in recent decades, attention has been paid to the issue of environment and the use of new policies for solving them, such as the use of clean energy policy in the process of sustainable development in many countries. Chinese and American statesmen have taken effective steps to increase the use of environmental policy in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development. The main question of this research: What role has the use of clean energy in the politics of China and the United States in order to achieve sustainable development? In response to this hypothesis, it is investigated with a comparative-historical method that China and the United States have been able to meet the goals based on the sustainable development of society by using various policies in the field of clean energy renewable. Nevertheless, it seems that China, through the use of new policies, giving priority to clean energy etc., has been able to overtake the United States in the use of renewable energy and has been able to implement a part of its sustainable development policy with the balance between energy security and environmental protection.

Keywords

environment; sustainable development; clean energy; China; United States

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