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Wang Tao
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Combating Climate Change: Challenges Facing Future Targets
While Beijing has made some progress in combating air pollution, the problem lies in the country’s development model as China adjusts its emission control per unit of GDP growth.
By Wang Tao
Published on Nov 5, 2013
Source: CCTV News
Carnegie–Tsinghua’s Wang Tao spoke with CCTV’s China 24 about his views on China’s new carbon emission goals. Wang commented that China’s new carbon emission targets differed from the initial ones set in 2005. The new goals are divided into two sub-targets: the reduction of carbon intensity by 17 percent and the increase renewable targets of non-fossil energy by 11.4 percent within a five year period.
Wang further explained how these targets play a role in China’s overall development plan and use of new green technology. He questioned the seemingly negligible influence these targets have on Beijing’s very visible smog problem. Wang stated that while progress has been made, the problem lies in the development model as China adjusts its emission control per unit of GDP growth. Consequently, as China’s GDP increases the amount of pollution allotment increases as well. The key to solving this issue is to strengthen the current model in order to prevent the pollution from increasing as GDP continues to rise.
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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