Usa - China - A G2 For climate and Economy?

China appears to view global warming as an economic issue, Obama's administration is primarily focused on the current economic urgency as well, but climate turn is also a serious urgency and a threat to the world's economic law itself with all its present and unbelievable impacts. Don't these global problems wish an integrated economic and environmental strategy? The hypothesized summit in the middle of Barack Obama and the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, could be an important step to accelerate urgent actions needed both to face the global economic downturn and to build a solid climate pact.

China, in its last 5-year plan, sets targets to cut national vigor intensity (energy used per unit of Gdp) by 20% in the middle of 2006 and the end of 2010. According to Deborah Seligsohn, China program Director on Climate, vigor and Pollution of the World Resources Institute, this target seems to be realizable given their newest noteworthy record (-1.8% in 2006, -3.7% in 2007, and -4.2% in 2008.) Last month Hillary Clinton met experts from the Asia community and the Pew Centre for climate turn that together wrote a record that could help the creation of this Us-Chinese partnership on climate change. But the good examples from China, although not directly referred to Co2 emissions, and Obama's ambitious plan on vigor and climate will need decisions from other 13 countries (or federations such as the Eu), along with Russia, India, Japan to get 80% of world's emissions "under control". Nowadays the other 173 countries inventory for about 20% of total Co2 emissions, but people growth and old amelioration patterns could dangerously growth their "pollution share" in the future: every nation will be then required to cut the Co2, but large number of money are needed to do so. Where will our leaders take Dollars, Yuan or Euros these days?

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Next steps: -264 days to Cop15:
Two events along the path to Copenhagen will take place in Bonn from March 29th to April 8th: the 7th session of the Awg-Kp (Ad Hoc Working Group on additional Commitments for Annex 1Parties under the Kyoto Protocol) and 5th session of the Awg-Lca (Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative action under the Convention). As we can read on the Unfccc website "this is the first of three planned negotiating sessions before Cop 15 in December" and can hopefully prepare a good ground for delegations and political leaders to decide upon.

Written by Luca Marazzi on behalf of Responding to climate Change.

Usa - China - A G2 For climate and Economy?

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