Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with … its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse … gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are when that would occur and what credible interim targets China would …

allowed. Because of a great deal of low-cost abatement opportunities available in the energy sectors of China and India and …

perspectives: a) from the point of view of fairness, how do developing countries including China and India perceive emissions caps … in the first place?; b) why have China and India been sceptical to international emissions trading?; c) how is an inflow …Many economic studies suggest that China would reap significant benefits from participating in a global cap …

available, China is widely expected as the world’s number one host country of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects. But …, making this potential a reality represents a significant challenge for China, because there has been a general lack of …. This has raised great concern about China’s ability to compete internationally for CDM projects and exploit fully its CDM …

countries including China and India perceive emissions caps in the first place?; b) why have China and India been sceptical to … the proposal for joint accession by the U.S. and China in the interest of China?, and 2) Even if participating a global … cap-and-trade regime is so beneficial to China as many economic studies suggest, why has China consistently refused in …

China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U ….S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community … starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under the Bali Roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on which …

Implementation of AIJ for China”. It focuses on five issues or questions: the subject of the paper, China’s concerns about clean … development mechanism, what China has done so far in limiting its carbon emissions, what can be expected from China at the … international climate change negotiations subsequent to Buenos Aires, and whether combating global climate change is in China …