China plans absolute CO2 cap for first time: government adviser | Reuter

China plans absolute CO2 cap for first time: government adviser | Reuters The target will be written into China's next five-year plan, which comes into force in 2016, He Jiankun, chairman of China's Advisory Committee on Climate Change, told a conference in Beijing. There had been local media speculation last year that the country would introduce absolute caps, considered more stringent than its current system of pegging CO2 emissions, which have soared 50 percent since 2005, to the size of the economy.http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/03/us-china-climatechange-idUSKBN0EE0ML20140603?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7b4aeac4ea-Sinocism06_03_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-7b4aeac4ea-29615013&mc_cid=7b4aeac4ea&mc_eid=5935182a65

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