China Will Stick by Its Commitment on Climate Change: Expert

Posted by on Nov 21, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments

There are vocal China skeptics and critics out there that believe: 1) under the recent China-US climate change agreement, China gets away with “doing nothing”; and 2) even if China revs up counter-greenhouse gas policies, it won’t be able meet its commitment.

An earlier post cited a Tsinghua-MIT study that argued not only will China be able to meet its CO2 emissions commitments, it could reach peak emissions years before the target year of 2030 as specified under the agreement.  Below is an analysis by Kerry Brown, Executive Director of the China Studies Center at the University of Sydney, on China’s decision making process that assures its commitment will stick.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kerry-brown/china-climate-change-deal_b_6159234.html?utm_hp_ref=world