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I removed the 'needs to be wikified' tag on 23 march, after adding internal wiki links and correcting syntax of the external links. If there's more wikification that needs to be done, please do it, or indicate to me here (I'm watching) what needs to be done. Thanks. --CathCarey (talk) 21:01, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I just emptied out the external links section, as it contained mostly news articles about climate change in China. As most if not all of these constitute reliable sources, I'll post them here if anybody wants to use them to build up the article.
Add Bill McKibben's an Can China Go Green? No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy June 2011 National Geographic. 99.181.156.9 (talk) 18:33, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Can China Go Green? No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy June 2011 National Geographic 99.56.120.252 (talk) 05:00, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Clarification needed in section References regarding ...
(od) moved to Talk:Climate change in China. 108.195.138.38 (talk) 05:30, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
China to cap energy use in national low-carbon plan; Limit is expected to form cornerstone of five-year plan to curb surging greenhouse gas emissions by Tania Branigan in Beijing via guardian.co.uk 4 August 2011 , excerpt
A cap on energy consumption is expected to be at the heart of a Chinese low-carbon plan to be issued this year, experts believe, amid reports that officials have now agreed its level. China is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, making up a quarter of the global total. Experts say setting an energy limit would add certainty to the country's attempts to rein in emissions and should make it easier for emissions trading schemes to get off the ground. The cap has been anticipated for some time but is now thought likely to emerge in the low-carbon plan understood to have been broadly approved by a panel set up by the state council, China's cabinet, and chaired by the premier, Wen Jiabao. It should be formally passed later this year. Reuters reported[1] that officials have settled on a total energy cap of 4.1bn tonnes of coal equivalent (TCE) by 2015 – a level more than 25% higher than last year. Analysts warn that the plan has yet to be nailed down and that a cap could still be delayed by disagreements, to re-emerge in a later policy document. ...
China set to cap energy use in national low-carbon plan By David Stanway in Beijing Aug 4, 2011 via Reuters (Editing by David Fogarty). 99.181.138.215 (talk) 00:35, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
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"If you have a total energy cap you can translate that into an emissions number or trade energy credits -- it gives a lot of different options," said Deborah Seligsohn, a climate policy expert working for the World Resources Institute in Beijing. "You can use a cap for lots of other purposes but you need a ceiling to create the incentive to trade," she said. ... Han Wenke, the head of the Energy Research Institute, a government think-tank, told a meeting this week it will be formally passed later this year once recommendations from other government departments have been collected. Few surprises are expected, with many of China's five-year carbon dioxide (CO2), energy and pollution targets already confirmed. But formal recognition is likely to be given to six pilot low-carbon zones in the provinces of Guangdong and Hubei and the cities of Tianjin, Beijing, Chongqing, and Shanghai.
99.181.138.215 (talk) 00:48, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Zhang Guobao, formerly China's senior energy official, told state news agency Xinhua after his retirement in March that the cap would stand at 4 billion TCE, and some scholars involved in the discussions last year were proposing a figure as low as 3.6 billion TCE. "The number is definitely at the higher end, there's no doubt about that, and this tells you how fierce the debate has been internally," said Wu Changhua, China representative with London-based NGO The Climate Group. "But it is a good starting point. There were a lot of very aggressive scholars arguing forcefully for a much lower cap, saying there is no way we can carry on like this, but there were also moments of doubt whether the cap would be there or not."
99.181.138.215 (talk) 00:53, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
It eventually plans to bring carbon intensity down by 40-45 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels, following a pledge it made before global climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009. ... Last week, the National Development and Reform Commission for the first time published the names of regions that were struggling to meet targets, including undeveloped and resource-dependent Ningxia, Qinghai and Xinjiang in the northwest as well as the economic powerhouse of Jiangsu on the eastern coast. "The NDRC are playing a watchdog role to see if they are going to make it or not. I interpret this very positively, and it is part of the lessons they learnt from previous years," said Wu of The Climate Group. ... The plan is also likely to include absolute targets to restrict a series of major pollutants, targets already passed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Reports suggest it will also propose tougher energy-saving building codes, more backing for hybrid cars and further instructions to eliminate aging industrial capacity
99.181.138.215 (talk) 01:03, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
China plots course for green growth amid a boom built on dirty industry; National economic blueprint set to tackle pollution and waste, and invest in renewable energy by Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent via guardian.co.uk 4.February.2011 99.181.138.215 (talk) 01:11, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
From resource in current issue of Environment (Vol. 53, 5, Sept/Oct 2011) ... http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2011/September-October%202011/climate-change-full.html ... on Table 1. Flagship Legislation, China's National Climate Change Programme (2007), stating Main purpose ...
"This program focuses on five key areas:
Measures include strengthening the existing energy legal system, improving the national energy program, implementing the Renewable Energy Law, promoting favorable conditions for renewable energy development and GHG mitigation, stimulating energy price reform, optimizing the energy mix, and promoting innovation and efficiency improvements in various power-generating technologies (renewable and nonrenewable), including nuclear power." Date passed: 2007 (revised in 2008 and 2009) 97.87.29.188 (talk) 20:59, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
From Talk:Climate change fund ... China: Economic woes no excuse for climate change inaction "Ahead of major climate change talks in Durban, South Africa (Cop17), China's top climate official said that economic turmoil in the West should not get in the way of fighting global warming. " in November 22, 2011 csmonitor.com by David Stanway (Reuters); excerpt ...
"After the financial crisis, every country has had its problems, but these problems are just temporary," Xie Zhenhua, vice-director of the National Development and Reform Commission, told reporters on Tuesday.
Beijing has been one of the big winners of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, which allows industrialized countries to earn carbon credits by investing in clean projects in developing nations. China has by far the largest number of CDM projects and its success has prompted Europe, the biggest carbon credit market, to seek changes to the CDM and the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012, saying it currently lacks environmental integrity. Russia, Canada and Japan have said they will not support a second phase of emissions cuts under Kyoto, saying it is meaningless if the biggest emitters, China and the United States, do not sign up to binding curbs.
See Late-2000s recession, Kyoto Protocol and Post–Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions, Emission intensity (amount produced per unit of GDP), Cancun Summit
99.181.147.59 (talk) 06:10, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
China Pushes Clean-Energy Agenda Ahead of Summit November 22, 2011, 6:33 A.M. ET. by Zhoudong Shangguan, excerpt ..
China plans to push for more funding for clean-energy technologies in the developing world even as it repeated its opposition to mandatory emissions cuts, underscoring the challenges at climate-change talks beginning next week in South Africa. International climate-change officials are meeting in Durban ahead of the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol global-warming treaty next year, but any formal agreement is considered unlikely by experts. In addition to continued opposition from major greenhouse-gas emitters China, India and the U.S.—factors that hobbled similar talks in Copenhagen two years ago—Europe continues to grapple with its debt crisis. That makes any new cuts that could curb economic growth and new spending on green initiatives much less likely. Meanwhile, Japan is considering its plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020 after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster led political leaders to reconsider the nation's nuclear ambitions.
See Politics of global warming
141.218.36.43 (talk) 00:35, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
(od) added. 108.195.138.38 (talk) 05:39, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Weighing Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels January 30, 2012, 6:23 pm by Matthew L. Wald Or maybe Sino-American relations? 97.87.29.188 (talk) 01:46, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
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Is this article a candidate for merger? There seem to be far too many articles dealing with China environmental topics, many aspects of which are significantly out of date. I'm not an experienced enough editor to know how to approach this. There is an article on Pollution in China. Another for Greenhouse gas emissions by China. There's Debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation. And the two best articles of the bunch, Environmental policy in China and Environmental governance in China. For the sake of completeness, I will add this comment to the talk page of each. Hopefully someone more experienced than me can suggest how to streamline. JArthur1984 (talk) 00:13, 17 June 2022 (UTC)JArthur1984
I note the tone header. Because this article deals with a potentially sensitive political topic, should it be protected? This is the sort of ongoing journalistic type of article that occasionally might be tweaked by non-neutral parties in order to reflect a particular political entity in a positive light. Atomic putty? Rien! (talk) (talk) 15:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Like is anyone going to address ever how succinct and encyclopedic the pros section is, and how argumentative, non-neutral and nebulous the con-side is? It’s alarmingly unbalanced and reads like a PRC propaganda article in whole. Raiders88 (talk) 22:53, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 12:30, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation → Climate policy of China – 1) Title is rather long and specific - climate policy would allow other aspects to be added
2) To be more similar to Climate change policy of the United States
3) The word ‘economic’ before ‘responsibility’ seems outdated as China is now profiting from EV battery manufacture for example Chidgk1 (talk) 16:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
@94rain@JArthur1984@Raiders88@Atomic putty? Rien!@Anythingyouwant@Mx. Granger@Rotide4321 and anyone else interested in this very important topic.
Now the article has a better name and scope I hope some of you can pitch in and improve it further. Feel free to revert, disagree with, amend or discuss any changes I make as your ideas may well be better. Chidgk1 (talk) 13:16, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
I briefly looked at Climate change policy of the United States and it seems in poor shape so I guess we don't want to copy that structure. What should the structure of the article be? Chidgk1 (talk) 13:36, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
You could maybe get more from https://chineseclimatepolicy.oxfordenergy.org/ Chidgk1 (talk) 19:50, 15 January 2024 (UTC)