The web portal presents the China Government’s decision on cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by 40-45% (compared to 2005) by 2020. This ‘voluntary action’ is seen as a major contribution for tackling climate change.
It notes that, in order to achieve the target, more efforts must be made besides strictly abiding by the principle of "energy-saving and emissions reductions”. The government would devote major efforts to developing renewable and nuclear energies to ensure the consumption of non-fossil-fuel power accounted for 15 percent of the country’s total primary energy consumption by 2020 and more trees would be planted and the country’s forest area would increase by 40 million hectares and forest volume by 1.3 billion cubic meters from the levels of 2005.
The statement recommends that;
• the government is required to take into account both immediate and long-term interests while achieving coordinated development of its economy.
• coping with climate change should be a major strategy for the national economic and social development
• more funding to be invested into the research, development and industrialization of technologies for energy saving, and into energy efficiency, clean coal development, renewable energies, advanced nuclear energies, and carbon capture and storage.
• Laws, regulations and standards should be formulated and fiscal, taxation, pricing and financial measures to be introduced to manage and monitor the implementation of those laws and regulations