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Carnegie China

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.

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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.

This interview originally aired on CCTV News.

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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