But are bicycles or
even carbon intensity cuts enough?
Not exact matches
But the
carbon -
intensity of Chinese GDP will need to fall
even faster — by 4.6 % a year between now and 2015 — to meet Beijing's 12th Five Year Plan commitment.
As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing,
even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different
carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less
carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less
carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.
It has proposed changes eliminating the
carbon intensity threshold for existing coal plants - allowing them to use public money to stay open longer and
even extend their lifetimes.
Even as China's emissions continue to rise, the IEA points out that the nation has cut its
carbon intensity (
carbon emissions linked to GDP) by 15 percent since 2005.
«If heavy industry grows slower, a
carbon rate or
carbon intensity target could be
even more stringent than a cap - and - trade program might be.
Even if China could deliver larger reductions in
carbon intensity, China's absolute 2030 emissions could still be 10Gt, 40 % of the WEO 450 scenario
carbon budget.
Turnbull and Frydenberg have already any ruled out kind of
carbon price,
even the emissions
intensity mechanism proposed by the Climate Change Authority (of which I'm a member) as an evolution of Direct Action.