China Policy
Davos, Switzerland 2017: World Economic Forum working with China Council International Cooperation on Environment and Development
focus on potential of new technologies for environment
climate change
promote circular sharing economy (fosters recycled and reused products)
"The Paris Agreement is a hard-won achievement... All signatories should stick to it rather than walk away"
Trend
Stop building 103 coal-powered power plants
Invested in reneables (excluding hydro) by 17% to $102.9billion, 36% of total global investment
China has been shifting away from its reliance on coal: 65% (3.7% drop from 2015)
worth 7.2 million KW of coal energy
25% of total global renewable power capacity
Imported vast amounts of raw materials
China uses around 2.5kg of materials per dollar of economic growth compared with around 1/2kg in OECD countries
Eco-cities have been planned, and hope to reduce many of these problems.
The first eco-city they will develop is Dongtan, near Chongming.
It is being built with care, and the environment is the first priority at all costs.
4.36 billion tonnes of coal equivalent in 2016
Renewable energy policy
- 197 GW of hyodro electricity
25.8 GW of wind energy ( wind manufacturing industry in the world )
226 GW in 2009 - 25% of total installed energy capacity
0.4 GW of solar energy (40% of the world)
3.2 GW of biomass
34 MW of geothermal power
4 MW of marine energy
Planned to supply 1/3 of China's lpanned power capacity by 2020
The Three Gorges Dam
World largest electricity generating plant
2km long 100m high
32 main generators, capacity of 700MW each - complete capacity 22500 mw
used to reduce China's dependence on coal
Supplies electricity for Shanghai and Chongqing
declared "war on pollution"
The average annual growth rate in energy consumption had already fallen to 2.3 percent over the 2012-2015 period, down from 6.4 percent in 2005-2012
11th Five Year Plan (2006-2010)
Ensure secure supply of energy
Structural adjustment - service industry; technical improvement; improving energy-efficiency legal regulations; giving market correct price signals
Reduce energy per unit GDP by 20%
keep total energy consumption below 5 billion tonnes of standard coal
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