Working party presentations

摘要

China's carbon emissions are still on the rise, but its emissions growth in 2012 was halved compared with 2011, the lowest rise in a decade. Its electricity generation increased by 5.2 per cent, although coal input to power generation grew by only 1.2 per cent. Most of the additional demand was met by hydro and supplemented by increased wind and solar. All these mark the increasing effectiveness of domestic policies designed to deploy renewables, cut emissions and improve energy efficiency. It is anticipated that China will introduce total emission control of GHGs in the 13th Five Year Plan (2016-2020), which will put pressure on the US to accept legally binding obligations to cut carbon emissions after 2020.