CHINAS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects of Chinas key position in the climate change situation and policy debates. However, limited by its development stage, natural resource endowment, and other unbalanced developing issues, China is still a developing country. This book shows the reader the real China, which can provide more comprehensive solutions for future global climate regimes.
This book includes research into Chinas Twelfth Five-Year-Plan; low-carbon city pilot schemes; policies and pathways for Chinas nationally appropriate mitigation actions; Chinas forestry management; Chinas NGOs and climate change; the low-carbon 2010 Expo in Shanghai; carbon budget proposals; Chinas green economy and green jobs; Chinas reaction to carbon tariffs; Chinas actions in approaching adaptation; Chinas cumulative carbon emissions; and more. Chinas Climate Change Policies brings together experienced experts with in-depth understanding of the scientific assessment of climate change and relevant social and economic policies, and senior experts who have participated directly in international climate negotiations. This will help the reader to better understand the 2011 Durban climate change conference, as well as Chinas long-term strategy in response to climate change.
Weiguang Wang is Associate Secretary of the Party and Deputy President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is now a Professor and a PhD tutor at CASS.
Guoguang Zheng is Secretary of the Party and President of the China Meteorological Administration, and is now a Researcher and a PhD tutor at CMA.
Yong Luo is an Associate Director and Director concurrently, Researcher, and PhD tutor at the Climate Change Center of the China Meteorological Administration, as well as Director of the Climate Change Research Laboratory, Director of the China Meteorological Research Institute of Climate Resources Committee, and Executive Director of Beijing Meteorological Research Institute.
Ying Chen is Director of the Sustainable Development Office of the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and is one of the Senior Researchers and Master Tutor at CASS.
Hongbo Chen is an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, with a major in the field of Environmental Economics, Carbon Market, and Energy-Efficient Buildings.
Jiahua Pan is currently Director of the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Professor of Economics at CASS Graduate School.
CHINAS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
Chief Editors: Weiguang Wang, Guoguang Zheng
Deputy Editors: Jiahua Pan, Yong Luo, Ying Chen, Hongbo Chen
First published 2012
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Chinas climate change policies / [edited by] Weiguang Wang, Guoguang Zheng, Jiahua Pan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Carbon dioxide mitigationEconomic aspectsChina. 2. Carbon dioxide mitigationGovernment policyChina. 3. Climatic changesGovernment policyChina. 4. Climatic changesSocial aspectsChina.
I. Wang, Weiguang, 1950 II. Zheng, Guoguang. III. Pan, Jiahua.
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CONTENTS
PART I
Chinese response to climate change and policy actions
TABLES
CONTRIBUTORS
Lige Cao is a researcher on climate change assessment in the National Climate Center (NCC) of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). Her research focuses on climate change impacts, vulnerability and risk, and adaptation, specialized in adaptation policies and sector actions in China.
Dr. Qimin Chai, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy, Tsinghua University, researches energy and climate change economics, integrated assessment, and uncertainty analysis.
Dr. Hongbo Chen is an associate research fellow and associate professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He has worked on climate change, environmental and energy issues research for the last nine years, and specialized in carbon market, with substantial experience in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
Ying Chen is Senior Research Fellow, Research Center of Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main academic interests are global environmental governance, climate change, and energy and economic development policy. Her main publications include
Economic Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation
co-authored with Pan Jiahua and Zhuang Guiyang, Beijing: China Meteorological Press, 2005),
The International Climate Regime and China
co-authored with Zhuang Guiyang, Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2005) and more than 30 academic papers including Energy embodied in international trade goods in China: calculation and policy implications
co-authored with Pan Jiahua and Xie Laihui,
Economic Research Journal
2008, no. 7). Address: Room 608, no. 10 Xian Xiaohutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing (100005). Tel/Fax: 861085119035. Email: cy_cass@yahoo.com.cn
Marco Gemmer is Visiting Professor and German CIM Integrated Expert on Climate Change in the National Climate Center (NCC) of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). He spent more than 10 years working on climate change impact, risk and adaptation, with particular expertise in adaptation policy and actions of energy and socio-economic sectors to regional and local climate change. He is senior advisor on energy and CDM in China and the EU.
