Climate Change in China – The Development of China’s Climate Policy and Its Integration into a New International Post-Kyoto Climate Regime

According to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, global emissions of carbon dioxide have to be reduced by about 80 per cent by 2050 in order to stabilise the increase in global temperature at 2 to 2.4°C by 2100 compared with its pre-industrial level. An increase of only 2°C would bring about “accep...

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Main Authors: Andreas Oberheitmann, Eva Sternfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-10-01
Series:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
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Online Access:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/64