全球应对气候变化:中国的定位和责任(英文)

Meeting the Challenge of Global Climate Change:China's Role and Responsibility

本文分析了中国在工业化发展进程中面临的能源、资源和环境挑战,强调中国走低碳发展道路不仅是应对国际压力,更是自身可持续发展的内在需求。为了促进低碳转型,本文分别从节能和提高能效、调整经济结构、调整能源结构、保持和增强森林碳汇等四个途径分析了中国已经取得的成就和受到的制约。结论是中国在全球应对气候变化进程中,应该对自身作为发展中国家的定位有清醒的认识,并积极承担相应的国际责任。

This paper analyzes the energy,resource and environmental challenges China faces in the course of industrialization and emphasizes that China's low-carbon development mode is not merely a reaction to international pressures but an innate demand of the country's sustainable development.We expound four approaches to the low-carbon goal:saving energy and raising energy efficiency;readjusting the economic structure;remolding the energy structure;and sustaining and increasing forest carbon sinks,with a view to showing China's achievements and constraints in relation to these issues.This paper concludes that in the course of the global process of meeting the challenge of climate change,China should on the one hand have a sober understanding of its role as a developing country and on the other should actively assume its due share of international responsibility.