China is looking at scaling back faster than expected the pollution that has made it the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, according to the British economist, Lord Nicholas Stern.
In discussions about the shape of China’s next five-year national development plan for 2016-2020, “we’re hearing that the emissions might be targeted to peak by 2025”, said Lord Stern, the author of the 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change who has spent 25 years working in China.
“I’ve not heard a peak date under discussion in China earlier than 2030 before. Now there’s a discussion of 2025,” he said in London yesterday.
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