With a one - party, socialist - communist political system, once the decision was made at the top to embrace climate action, Chinese officials have been able to move fast since 2007, when the 11th five - year plan set first - ever energy consumption targets: a reduction of 20 percent energy
use per unit of gross domestic product by 2012.
Carbon intensity, generally defined as carbon
produced per unit of gross domestic product, has been falling in developed countries, and some developing countries have pledged to reduce their own levels by as much as 45 percent by the end of the decade.
Here's the background paper with more detail on the proposal, which is primarily aimed at developing more accountability within the government, and particularly the White House, on overseeing a sequence of achievable steps to progressively ratchet down the amount of
oil per unit of gross domestic product — «oil intensity» is the shorthand.
After a meeting with French President Francois Hollande, who will host the climate talks in December, Li said China will cut carbon emissions
per unit of gross domestic product buy 60 percent to 65 percent by 2030.
While energy intensity — primary energy
demand per unit of gross domestic product — has improved over time, this improvement slowed to 1.7 % in 2017, compared with an average of 2.3 % over the previous three years, and only half the annual improvement rate consistent with delivering the Paris Agreement goals.
With a one - party, socialist - communist political system, once the decision was made at the top to embrace climate action, Chinese officials have been able to move fast since 2007, when the 11th five - year plan set first - ever energy consumption targets: a reduction of 20 percent energy
use per unit of gross domestic product by 2012.
In 2009, at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, China vowed to reduce the carbon dependence of its economy by lowering CO2 emissions
per unit of gross domestic product from 2010 levels by 17 percent by 2015.
He then described Mr. Bush's chosen way of measuring progress — by tracking the amount of carbon dioxide
emissions per unit of gross domestic product (tons per dollar)-- and said the country was on track to reach Mr. Bush's goal, set in 2002, of an 18 percent drop in greenhouse «intensity» by 2012.
U.S. energy efficiency, which EIA defines as «energy intensity» (energy consumption
per unit of gross domestic product) is among the world's leaders: