Geopolitics of global climate change and energy security

Currently, the problem of climate change is already far beyond the category of scientific research, and it affects the economic operation mode, interests pattern, and geographical relationships and becomes the focus of global governance. During the transition period of the international economic and social development and the critical transformation period of the world geopolitical pattern reorganization, China's industrialization is still at the intermediate stage, and tackling with climate change is also China's internal demand under this development stage. With more influence of climate change on national competitiveness, climate change and geopolitics present complex multiple relations, and climate change in the era of geopolitical landscape gradually affected the national strategy and diplomacy. This article offered some relevant suggestions based on evaluating the new geopolitical characteristics of climate change: (1) weighing of interests and properly handling the complex relations among major powers during international climate negotiations; (2) strengthening risk judgments and actively cooperating with the United States and the European Union on energy and climate change; (3) relying on the "One Belt (Silk Road Economic Belt) and One Road (twenty-first century Maritime Silk Road)" to ensure China's energy security and actively participating in the global energy governance; (4) strengthening the "south-south cooperation" mechanism innovation and increasing the investment.