Technocrats vs. tipping points: How East Asian governance shapes global emissions

Joseph Lavallee; Bruno Di Giusto

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0339968

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Technocrats vs. tipping points: How East Asian governance shapes global emissions

Joseph Lavallee ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Lavallee, Bruno Di Giusto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Business and Trade Program, International College, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Bruno Di Giusto

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Lavallee, Bruno Di Giusto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: digiusto@mail.mcu.edu.tw

Affiliation Journalism and Mass Communication Program, International College, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1037-276X

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Technocrats vs. tipping points: How East Asian governance shapes global emissions

Joseph Lavallee,
Bruno Di Giusto

Published: January 20, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0339968

About the Authors

Joseph Lavallee

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Lavallee, Bruno Di Giusto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Business and Trade Program, International College, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Bruno Di Giusto

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Lavallee, Bruno Di Giusto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: digiusto@mail.mcu.edu.tw

Affiliation Journalism and Mass Communication Program, International College, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1037-276X

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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