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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl)
J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
4
th
World Conference on
Low carbon energy development and its contribution to realize the reduction target of carbon
intensity in China
Limao Wang
and
Chufu Mou
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
S
etting low-carbon development should take account of multi-objectives with concern on different economic and policy
background. This paper designed two scenarios to present the low-carbon energy development in China, including
the appropriate low-carbon scenario (S1) and the advanced low-carbon scenario (S2), where three economic objectives
(represented by the annual GDP growth rate) was set at 4%, 6% and 8% respectively during the period between 2015-2030.The
analysis evaluated the development potentials of low carbon energy and their contributions for achieving the national target
of cutting down the CO
2
emission per unit GDP by 60%~65% by 2030 (compared to the 2005 level). We provided several
findings: (1) under the S1, low-carbon energy will reach 11.94 Gtce, whereas under the S2, it will reach 14.93 Gtce by 2030. It
was predicted that if the annual GDP growth rate was set at 4%, 6%, and 8% between 2015 and 2030, China should cut down
143.63, 194.81and 262.73 Gt CO
2
emission, respectively; (2) Low carbon energy would contribute 12.58% (minimum) to
31.19% (maximum) toward the 2030 carbon intensive target; (3) higher GDP growth rate would make lower contribution in
carbon mitigation. Maintaining a higher GDP growth rate would require more investment to low carbon energy, along with
the optimization in economic restructure and the improvement of carbon productivity.
Biography
Limao Wang is a Professor in Energy Economy and Environmental policy at Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. He has been active in the area of Energy Economics and Energy Security for nearly 20 years. His current research interests focus on Energy
Geopolitics, Energy Consumption and Climate Change Policy.
lmwang@igsnrr.ac.cnLimao Wang et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-036