The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released its China Sustainable Development Strategy Report 2009 in which it sets objectives for China's low-carbon economy development, that is, to reduce the carbon dioxide emission element of the unit GDP by about 50% by 2020.<\/p>\n
The report points out that as the largest developing country, China is facing both challenges and opportunities in developing a low-carbon economy, and China's low-carbon strategy should mainly focus on four aspects: reducing energy consumption intense activities and carbon emissions intense activities as well as reducing carbon dioxide emissions growth; accelerating the modernization of the heavy chemical industry by taking advantage of the energy and resource conditions both home and abroad; selecting key industries and increasing these sectors' competitiveness; and actively participating in international negotiations on climate change and making low-carbon rules to seek for more allowances for China's industrialization.<\/p>\n
The report says that China should make low carbon the strategy for the country's social and economic development. It states that China's low-carbon economic development objectives by 2020 are: unit GDP energy consumption lowered by 40%-60% compared with that of 2005 and unit GDP carbon dioxide emission reduced by 50%.<\/p>\n
The report states that China's measures for developing a low carbon economy include making relevant laws and regulations related to climate change, building long term mechanisms for low-carbon development as well as relevant policies, strengthening cooperation and setting up low carbon technology systems, and establishing a cooperation mechanism that involves all stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released its China Sustainable Development Strategy Report 2009 in which it sets objectives for China's low-carbon economy development, that is, to reduce the carbon dioxide emission element of the unit GDP by about 50% by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[251,1442,249,1211,1278,703,3224],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cas","tag-chemical-industry","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-global-warming","tag-low-carbon-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n