Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Climate Change Legislation

China's current policies and measures on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction include optimising its industrial structure, macroscopic measures to promote the use of low-carbon energy, advocating a low-carbon economy, encouraging less carbon consumption, increasing carbon sequestration, and...

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Published inEnvironmental policy and law Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 52 - 58
Main Author Cao, Mingde
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Copyright Agency Limited (Distributor) 01.01.2013
Subjects
Air pollution
Alternative energy sources
Carbon sequestration
China (People's Republic)
Climate change
Economic development
Emission standards
Emissions
Emissions control
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy management
Environmental law
Environmental protection
Environmental tax
Federal government
Forests
Fossil fuels
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Local government
Market shares
Politics
Renewable resources
Solar energy
Subsidies
Sustainable development
China
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Summary:China's current policies and measures on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction include optimising its industrial structure, macroscopic measures to promote the use of low-carbon energy, advocating a low-carbon economy, encouraging less carbon consumption, increasing carbon sequestration, and concrete measures such as setting energy-saving targets and monitoring their achievement, energy labelling and quotas, carbon taxes and so on. The current climate change mitigation policy has established the basic strategy and framework and formed the policy system for GHG emission reduction in China. China has many successful measures for GHG emission reduction in its existing policy system and practices, which need to be modified, acknowledged and consolidated in law to make better use of their function. The economy of China relies heavily on energy-intensive and highly polluting industries, which is an obstacle on the path towards sustainable development and therefore a reform of its industrial structure is urgently required.
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