China has huge pollution and other environmental issues as this article describes, but good to see progress in at least a few areas:
1. Low carbon vehicles: 13 Chinese cities have signed up to a government scheme to buy 13,000 electric vehicles this year. The aim is to manufacture half a million electric vehicles in China by 2011.
2. Energy efficiency: the energy intensity of the Chinese economy has fallen by 60% since 1980 and the government has set a goal of reducing it by a further 20% between 2005 and 2010.
3. Renewable energy: Internationally China supplies 40% of the world’s solar PV technology; domestically China is the largest wind power generator in Asia and fourth in the world - accounting for one third of the world’s new capacity.
4. Low carbon buildings: China has set a 50% energy conservation standard for all new buildings and a 65% standard for new buildings in some major cities by 2010.
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