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Unlike previous decades, which stressed economic rationales in envisaging national environmental policies, Canada and South Korea have started to recognize each other as partners in environmental cooperation in the last twenty years. Canada seeks to preserve the environment at several critical junctures, while Korea has ardently pursued “low carbon, green growth” since the inauguration of the Lee administration in 2007. These two competing views can be summarized as the logics of consequentialism and appropriateness merit thorough explanations, respectively. With these logics in mind, this paper asks to what extent and under which conditions normative decision contributes to enhancing the bilateral relations. By doing so, the paper argues that the evolution of bilateral environmental cooperation can be attributed to ideational as opposed to material concerns. This contention is examined with particular reference to the two countries’ internal governance structure for environmental policy and the evolution of global environmental politics and governance.
