Energy Development and Addressing Climate Change in China
China's current economic and social development not only has been constrained by the bottleneck of resources and environment,but also has been challenged by global climate change and mitigation of carbon emissions.After promoting energy conservation and reducing CO2 emissions vigorously,China has archived the great reduction rate of CO2 intensity of GDP,which has caught the world's attention.However,because of rapid growth of GDP during the industrialization stage,CO2 emissions in China will be high and grow fast.China coordinates sustainable development and addressing global climate change to achieve the green,low carbon development.China will take following measures: to strengthen the strategic adjustment of industrial structure and industrial upgrade and to promote structural energy conservation;to promote energy-conservation technology,to eliminate backward production capacity and to improve energy efficiency;to develop new and renewable energy,to optimize energy structure and to reduce carbon ratio of energy structure.China's main objective in the near future is to significantly reduce the energy intensity of GDP and CO2 intensity,to take efforts to reach CO2 emissions peak in 2030 and to significantly decrease them in 2050,in order to adapt to the long-term emission reduction goal of keeping the global temperature rise of less.During Twelveth Five Year Plan period,China will take more efforts to control the total energy consumption,to establish the statistics,accounting and evaluating systems of CO2 emissions and to promote the carbon trading market mechanisms.All these means will also accelerate the transfer of economic development pattern.