China Targets Heavy Industry, Coal, Vehicles In Pursuing 2015 Greenhouse Gas Targets

摘要

China has announced a plan to conserve energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions through the end of 2015 by targeting heavy industry, automobile emissions and coal consumption in metropolitan areas around Beijing, Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta in southern China. In a May 27 statement, National Development and Reform Commission Chairman Xu Shaoxi declared a "sense of urgency" to meet the goals, which include cutting energy intensity per unit of gross domestic product by 3.9 percent each of the next two years and reducing carbon dioxide intensity per unit of GDP by over 4 percent this year and 3.5 percent in 2015. The announcement of relatively short-term goals to run through the end of 2015 could feed into China's attempt to reach national goals under the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). Announced in 2011, those goals were to reduce energy intensity by 16 percent and carbon intensity by 17 percent-both compared to 2010 levels-by the end of 2015.