中国的气候变化、能源和低碳发展报告(英文).pdf

IN FOCUS POLICY BRIEFING Research and analysis from the Institute of Development Studies ISSUE 08 CHINA AND DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FOR AND FROM THE WORLD SEPTEMBER 2009 Climate Change, Energy, and Low-carbon Development in the Chinese Context China faces the challenge of achieving higher levels of development in times of climate change and within a carbon-constrained world. China has begun to implement plans for low-carbon growth, renewable energy and climate change policy. other countries can learn from this experience from what has and hasn ’ t worked. at the same time China can learn how to avoid following the same high-carbon development pathway as developed countries and how to develop low-carbon technologies. Introduction Carbon dioxide emissions by some of the world ’ Developing countries have historically emitters and the african continent contributed very little to climate change – the main cause is the graph 1: total emissions in 2006 greenhouse gas emissions of developed US countries cumulated over the past two China centuries (graph 3). This situation will EU change as emerging economies like africa China, India and South Africa increase their emissions – according to some 0 1000