Saturday 17 December 2011

CHINA’S NEW ENERGY STRATEGY

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CHINA TO UNVEIL NEW ENERGY CONSUMPTION STRATEGY

Lan Lan

China Daily, December 17, 2011

BEIJING - China is set to unveil a plan to impose controls on total energy consumption, said Zhang Ping, director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Friday.

The new plan, together with an energy-intensity target that has already been set for the period between 2011 and 2015, will provide policy guidelines for energy conservation and the reduction of emissions, said Zhang, without outlining a timetable.

"We need to achieve a better balance between economic growth, economic transformation, energy conservation and emissions reduction," said Zhang, at the NDRC's annual work meeting, which came on the back of an extended two-week conference on climate change, held in Durban, South Africa.

In Durban, emerging nations such as China were put under greater pressure to shoulder more responsibility for cutting emissions.

"It will be an unavoidable dilemma that China will have to deal with in the coming years - continuing the processes of industrialization and urbanization while coming under pressure to act more in cutting emissions," said Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University.

China has set a target of cutting energy intensity - which is calculated as units of energy for each unit of GDP - by 16 percent by 2015 from the 2010 level.

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