Yesterday the Chinese government announced a pledge to use 40- to 45-percent less carbon per unit of GDP by 2020 compared with 2005 levels. This in essence means to try to be more energy efficient, but in fact it doesn't mean reducing or cutting its existing carbon input which ranks first in the world currently and in fact China's output will actually be growing as its economy continues to grow...
I remain very sceptical about the Chinese actually being able to become energy efficient and actually being able to make factories, etc being less poluting...Report and data forging is just too commonplace practice in China. Actually I'm really doubtful if the world really knows the actual figures about China's huge carbon print on the world...
Also policy is one thing, making local authorities to actually impliment them quite another issue...
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"There's no question their carbon emissions would continue to grow under this scenario," said Charlie McElwee, an international environmental and energy lawyer based in Shanghai. "This isn't by any means an agreement by China to either cap, much less reduce, the amount of its carbon emissions. It's only slowing down the rate at which emissions are growing."If China did nothing and its economy doubles in size as expected in coming years, its emissions would likely double as well. Thursday's pledge means emissions would only increase by 50 percent in such a scenario. "
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But anyway, making the pledge is better than nothing...
China announces planned emissions cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112600519.html?wprss=rss_world
China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth (AP)
China's climate pledge to meet a quarter of global needs: IEA
Friday, 27 November 2009
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