As with the US, and indeed with all countries or regions with high
capacity and responsibility, the EU has a two-fold obligation, to ensure deep
domestic reductions and to catalyze rapid
reductions in developing countries through financial and technological support.
The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development,
reduction of excess industrial
capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting
domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.