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Ceremonial Mootcourt Room

Start Date

2-7-2012 11:20 AM

End Date

2-7-2012 12:40 PM

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China as one of the largest emission greenhouse gases country, has took a lot of stringent methods on energy saving and emission reduction in recent years, although China did not have emission reduction Obligations in Kyoto protocol. The highlight of China’s compliance of energy saving is it’s mainly depending on many energy plans and policies instead of laws, especially the National Five-Year Plan of PRC greatly helped the enforcement of energy conservation and emission reduction.

These phenomena happened in China deserved being researched in an evolutionary perspective. Energy plans and polices could play very important role in some certain period in past, however, when continuing their functions in future goal of energy saving would face more and more problems if we only rely on them without laws. Combining more and more laws in a comprehensive framework would be more effective for the coming more difficult tasks of carbon emission reduction.

The main reasons explaining why plans and policies are more forceful than laws so far including:(1) Energy conservation bonding together with many economic activities, which National plans can regulate and control effectively than branch laws in the macro level; (2) National plans can restrain public officials simply and directly with accountability system which actually rather deterrent than laws; (3) In past and existing energy low-efficiency situation in China, total quantity control of emission could play a powerful effects than detailed energy restructuring; (4) The plans and policies can set more flexible goals of energy saving than laws according to national developing circumstance.

At the same time, The potential negative aspects of using plans and policies become more and more obvious facing the coming more difficult times of energy saving in China.(1)Command and control methods can be workable in short time but easily rebound in a long time, disordered limiting power happened in many areas to meet the goals of energy saving showing it’s short-sighted; (2)During China National 12th Five-Year plan period, energy saving space and difficulty are much more complicated than 11th Five-Year period, only hard and simple goal could not prove effective than before; (3) Elaborate law designs can be great instrumental to get 17% carbon emission per GDP unit reduction; (4)More and more economic incentive- based and marketing-based methods should be applied in laws and policies coordinated with targets accountability National plans.

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Jul 2nd, 11:20 AM Jul 2nd, 12:40 PM

The Compliance Paths of China Energy Conservation

Ceremonial Mootcourt Room

China as one of the largest emission greenhouse gases country, has took a lot of stringent methods on energy saving and emission reduction in recent years, although China did not have emission reduction Obligations in Kyoto protocol. The highlight of China’s compliance of energy saving is it’s mainly depending on many energy plans and policies instead of laws, especially the National Five-Year Plan of PRC greatly helped the enforcement of energy conservation and emission reduction.

These phenomena happened in China deserved being researched in an evolutionary perspective. Energy plans and polices could play very important role in some certain period in past, however, when continuing their functions in future goal of energy saving would face more and more problems if we only rely on them without laws. Combining more and more laws in a comprehensive framework would be more effective for the coming more difficult tasks of carbon emission reduction.

The main reasons explaining why plans and policies are more forceful than laws so far including:(1) Energy conservation bonding together with many economic activities, which National plans can regulate and control effectively than branch laws in the macro level; (2) National plans can restrain public officials simply and directly with accountability system which actually rather deterrent than laws; (3) In past and existing energy low-efficiency situation in China, total quantity control of emission could play a powerful effects than detailed energy restructuring; (4) The plans and policies can set more flexible goals of energy saving than laws according to national developing circumstance.

At the same time, The potential negative aspects of using plans and policies become more and more obvious facing the coming more difficult times of energy saving in China.(1)Command and control methods can be workable in short time but easily rebound in a long time, disordered limiting power happened in many areas to meet the goals of energy saving showing it’s short-sighted; (2)During China National 12th Five-Year plan period, energy saving space and difficulty are much more complicated than 11th Five-Year period, only hard and simple goal could not prove effective than before; (3) Elaborate law designs can be great instrumental to get 17% carbon emission per GDP unit reduction; (4)More and more economic incentive- based and marketing-based methods should be applied in laws and policies coordinated with targets accountability National plans.