Weila Gong
@weilagong.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar at UC Davis and Nonresident Scholar with the 21st Century China Center (UC San Diego) | Author of Implementing a Low Future (OUP 2025)
Great conversation with anikapatel.carbonbrief.org @carbonbrief.org about my book and China’s climate policy implementation. We discussed how mid-level bureaucrats act as entrepreneurial “bridge leaders” and what this means for China’s climate governance and its emerging global climate leadership.
NEW - Climate expert @weilagong.bsky.social explains the vital role local Chinese bureaucrats play in helping shape climate policy
She explains what motivates these officials, how they push through new ideas and how they ensure their changes last
Read more in our conversation in @carbonbrief.org ⬇️
She explains what motivates these officials, how they push through new ideas and how they ensure their changes last
Read more in our conversation in @carbonbrief.org ⬇️
Interview: How ‘mid-level bureaucrats’ are helping to shape Chinese climate policy - Carbon Brief
how four cities – Shenzhen, Zhenjiang, Xiamen and Nanchang – approached developing low-carbon policies over the course of almost a decade
www.carbonbrief.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Great conversation with anikapatel.carbonbrief.org @carbonbrief.org about my book and China’s climate policy implementation. We discussed how mid-level bureaucrats act as entrepreneurial “bridge leaders” and what this means for China’s climate governance and its emerging global climate leadership.
Out today from Oxford University Press! Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. China’s subnational climate policy implementation — and its entrepreneurial bureaucrats as “bridge leaders” — will determine whether it can fill the void in global climate leadership.
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Out today from Oxford University Press! Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. China’s subnational climate policy implementation — and its entrepreneurial bureaucrats as “bridge leaders” — will determine whether it can fill the void in global climate leadership.