A China e as energias renováveis

A China leva a sério a questão da produção das energias renováveis - mais a sério do que a actual administração norte-americana. Vejam aqui: China's Clean Energy Performance Outpacing USA SolveClimate.com. São boas notícias, embora, a "pegada ambiental" chinesa seja, e será cada vez mais, brutal. Solve Climate tem uma ligação para a informação mais desenvolvida.

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Renewable energy mandates

• China's Renewable Energy Law, effective since February 2005, has set the world's most aggressive and legally binding target. By 2020, 15 percent of all energy is to come from wind, biomass, solar and hydropower energy, compared to its present 7 percent.
• China is to have 137 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generation by then, plus vehicle fuels with at least 15 percent renewable energy content. Estimated total investment needs for realizing these target amounts to nearly U.S. $270 billion.
• The U.S. has yet to establish a national renewable energy platform. Congress is tussling over a two year extension to vital tax credits for clean energy companies, which if extended for a full decade, would cost $5 billion.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Fuel Economy Standards

• By 2008, average Chinese passenger vehicles will be required to meet a 36 miles per gallon (mpg) requirement.
• Currently U.S. passenger vehicles are meeting a 27.5 mpg standard, which must now rise to reach 35 mpg by 2020.
• China is also in the process of setting fuel economy standards for trucks and agricultural vehicles. These policies combined are going to reduce China's GHG emissions by 488 million tons of CO2 by 2030.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Closing Small, Inefficient Coal-Fired Power Plants

• In 2006, China announced plans to decommission hundreds of smaller, older coal-fired power plants.By the end of November 2007, China had closed 365 small plants with a total capacity of 11,000 megawatts, according to statistics from the National Development and Reform Commission.