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Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies, by Yixian Sun The MIT Press, 2022, 276 pp., $35 pb, open access ebk ISBN 9780262543699 pb, 9780262369602 ebk (open access)

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Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies, by Yixian Sun The MIT Press, 2022, 276 pp., $35 pb, open access ebk ISBN 9780262543699 pb, 9780262369602 ebk (open access)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2023

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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 229 - 234
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17 Cashore, Auld & Newsom, n. 5 above.

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19 Cashore, Auld & Newsom, n. 5 above, pp. 206–7.

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