Abstract
This paper considered how to evaluate international cooperation on climate change. Firstly, an evaluation framework was established by the interdisciplinary review from the political, legal and economic dimensions of social science in environment policy. This is the framework that consisted of some elements about the international cooperation on climate change systematically. Secondly, this paper examined the effectiveness and subjects of the established evaluation framework. By using this framework, the case-study showed the evaluation result and policy subjects of Japan's international cooperation on climate change. The result of this case-study could verify the effectiveness of the framework, because international cooperation on climate change was able to be evaluated synthetically. One is to increase the number of case-study, and the other is to change the components of the framework. This paper could propose the qualitative framework as the evaluation method of international cooperation on climate change by materializing two methodological strong points of environmental policy, which are interdisciplinarity and synthesis.
