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All though China acknowledges that it is the largest ammeter of CO2around 30-33% of world co2 omissions it is also one of the world pioneers in the discussion and action against climate change.

China’s leadership had a clear understanding of the potential impacts of climate change, affecting its food security, exacerbating the threat of extreme weather events, re-establishing water crisis’s, and threatening to drown its most prosperous cities, such as Shanghai and Guangzhou as sea levels rise.

By 2020 carbon the Chinese government hopefully predict that Carbon intensity should drop by 40-45%, and 15% of primary energy will come from non-fossil sources.

One of our key positions is that we expect the international community that although we want to move towards a low carbon economy, the fact is that currently China is in the middle of a huge modernisation process. And Still China has to move out 70 million people from under the poverty line.

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- Over the past few decades, China has taken millions out of poverty with a fast wealth growth which mainly came from the coal
- In 2014 Coal made up 70% of the country energy consumption
- China is the worlds top coal consumer and producer
- Which has led to toxic air
- Kieran

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Why is China so important for Climate Change?

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Why is China so important for Climate Change?

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- China's emissions and coal consumption is mind-boggling
- in 2012, China released 12 billion tonnes of CO2 which was double the US.
-  if it doesn't it act on air pollution, the country may risk political instability
- Kieran

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China Poised for Leadership on Climate Change After U.S. Reversal

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China Poised for Leadership on Climate Change After U.S. Reversal

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/china-takes-leadership-climate-change-trump-clean-power-plan-paris-agreement/

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http://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china.html
This website shows that although China is emitting a large amount of greenhouse gases, it has also making great contribution in order to stop global warming. From 1950-2002, in a period of about 50 years, China’s greenhouse emission is only 9.33% of world’s total emission at the time.
Although China is now the largest greenhouse gas emitting country in the world with 30% of world's total greenhouse gas emission, it has only been emitting large amount of GHG in recent years since it is still a developing country with a large population.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data

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-               China pledged to reduce its emissions intensity by 40-45% from 2005 to 2020

-               Reducing carbon intensity by 60-65% from 2005-2030

-               Set a target of increasing non-fossil energy to 11.4 percent of total energy use by 2015. Hydroelectric power is now the main non-fossil energy source in China, generating 14.7 percent of electricity in 2011. Indeed, China is the largest hydroelectric producer in the world.

-               China set a target to fuel economy standards for new cars of 5L/100km by 2020. Consumers were offered a reduction in the vehicle tax paid on energy saving vehicles by half, and eliminating vehicle tax altogether on electric cars
- Kieran

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China to spend $493 billion on green power by 2020

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China to spend $493 billion on green power by 2020

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http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-05/china-to-spend-$493-billion-on-renewable-fuel-by-2020/8164434?pfmredir=sm&section=world
- Crystal

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- Kieran

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- Limiting coal use. Cutting back on coal not only reduces carbon emissions; it combats poor air quality, which has been causing serious health problems in notoriously polluted Chinese cities such as Beijing and Wuhan
- Carbon trading.  Next year, China will launch a nationwide carbon market, the world’s largest. It will cover six of the biggest carbon-emitting sectors, starting with coal-fired electricity generation. This cap-and-trade program will build on programs China has already created in two provinces and five cities.
- Cleaning up cars and trucks. Cutting pollution from automobiles, like cutting pollution from coal plants, is essential not just to reducing CO2 emissions but to clearing the air in cities: The government estimates that roughly one-third of Beijing’s epic smog is from automobiles. China is pulling old, inefficient cars off the road, providing incentives for buying hybrids and electric cars, and enforcing stricter fuel-efficiency standards for new cars.
- Making buildings more energy efficient. Two years ago, China started using requirements for buildings to be given energy-efficiency upgrades. The energy savings are just beginning to be felt, but given that buildings can last for decades or even centuries, there could be a long payoff period.
- Building renewable capacity. China knows it needs alternative sources of energy to replace coal, so the government is investing heavily in developing wind and solar energy.
- Building nuclear reactors. nuclear energy is one of the lowest-carbon forms of electricity out there. china announced it will build at least 60 new nuclear power plants within a decade
- Building high-speed rail. To limit transportation emissions, China is rapidly building high-speed rail. It already has more than 11,800 miles of high-speed rail that carry 2.7 million riders daily, and expansion plans are on the drawing board.
- Kieran

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- Free public bikes and electric cars in many cities. In most big cities in China, a person can use public bikes to travel around the city with a deposit of 50 Yuan, or a deposit of 200 Yuan for electric cars.
- Reduce public transport fare. For most bus routes in China, 2 Yuan or even 1 Yuan, will get you from the first stop to the last stop of the route. You can travel around Beijing by bus for less than $5!
- Restrictions on carbon-emitting factories and shutting down small factories. Chinese government has rolled out strict rules on the manufacturing of greenhouse gas-emitting machines and restrictions on factories that are carbon-emitters. Small factories have also been shutting down to minimise uncontrolled carbon-emission.
- National Arbor Day. On 12th March every year, schools and government officers will go out and plant trees in city or rural areas in order to educate Chinese citizens the importance of tree plantation and to contribute towards stopping global warming. China now has the largest human-planted forests in the world which is 54,000,000 hectares by 2005.
- Introduced Car License Plate Lottery and "Odd-Even" license plate restrictions in major cities to limit cars on the road. Especially in Beijing and Shanghai, you will need to compete with about 800 people in the Car License Plate Lottery in order to gain the right to drive on the road. And even after you are lucky enough to win the lottery, you are only allowed to drive on certain days depending on the last digit of your number plate (whether it is odd or even).

-Crystal

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- Brett

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- Crystal