China’s Low Carbon Future Offers Global Opportunities

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  • Published 01/12/15

china-reportby Sam Geall and Lulu Ning Hui
with additional contributions from Isabel Hilton, Richard Black, Monica Wang, Yu Jie, Adrian Ely, David Tyfield and Frauke Urban

How is China shifting to a low-carbon economy? What is driving the transition, and how will it affect global climate negotiations?

This report, by chinadialogue, the Low Carbon Innovation in China project and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, illustrates the dynamism of China’s low-carbon development and asks if China’s more ambitious approach to climate change could create incentives for other countries to move in a similar direction.