The low carbon study for China involved developing three policy notes to review the major policies and plans adopted by Chinese agencies and to provide suggestions for further action. Two key government targets framed the work: increasing the supply of non-fossil fuel energy to meet 15 percent of primary energy consumption by 2020, and reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP by about 20 percent in the 11th Five Year Plan (2006-10).
The three policy notes, which have been finalized and endorsed by counterpart institutions in China, covered:
- Evaluating the Government's renewable energy targets;
- Improvements in power dispatch efficiency [unpublished]; and
- Improvements in cement sector efficiency1
This project is part of ESMAP’s support for low carbon development.
Outputs
Report: China's Envisaged Renewable Energy Target: The Green Leap Forward
Webstory: World Bank Advises China on the Green Leap Forward
Report: Analysis of Energy-Efficiency Opportunities for the Cement Industry in Shandong Province, China
1 This note was funded by the Asia Sustainable and Alternatively Energy Program (ASTAE)