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Wang Tao
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In The Media
Contributions to Global Effort to Address Climate Change
China faces challenges in achieving the ambitious carbon emissions targets announced during APEC, yet the country’s progress on clean energy technology could also benefit other developing countries.
By Wang Tao
Published on Nov 25, 2014
Source: CCTV News
Speaking on CCTV News, Carnegie’s Wang Tao asserted that the carbon emissions targets that China announced during the APEC summit demonstrate strong central leadership. This initiative, he explained, will carry both short-term economic costs and long-term potential to cultivate clean energy technology both in China and abroad.
Although achieving these emissions targets will require economic restructuring that local officials might resist, Wang maintained that linking government policies on air pollution and economic reform will help to ensure that government actors work together. In the process, China will produce new clean energy technologies that will spur economic growth both domestically and in neighboring developing countries.
About the Author
Wang Tao
Former Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Wang Tao was a nonresident scholar in the Energy and Climate Program based at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy.
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