From action to legislation: challenges and enhancements of the regulatory frameworks concerning China’s blue carbon sink trading

The Ecological Environment Code of the People’s Republic of China has incorporated ecosystem carbon sinks into the legal system, yet there remains a lack of specialized legislation for blue carbon sink trading, with obvious normative limitations in its supervision and management. This research mainly adopts a combined research method integrating normative analysis, legal doctrine analysis, and qualitative policy text analysis. It systematically reviews China’s existing laws and policies related