FINANCIAL TIMES: China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, should impose an absolute cap on its emissions for the first time from 2016, a senior government climate change adviser said on Tuesday.
Professor He Jiankun, vice-chairman of China’s National Experts Panel on Climate Change, told a conference in Beijing that he and other influential advisers had recommended including such a limit in the country’s next five-year plan, which comes into force from 2016…
“This is our experts’ advice and suggestion,” he said. “The government has not decided on this policy yet… (more)
Excellent opportunity for the US to lead from behind. We cut emissions after China and India do it.
EDITOR: Do you think the China scholar making his statement the day after the President’s proposal was coincidental? Do Chinese scholars make such public statements without the encouragement of the government?