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Climate regime beyond 2012: Some reflections in the context of China
By Ke Jian
de 17h à 19h, à l'Iddri - 6, rue du Général Clergerie - 75116 Paris
Paris 24th of April 2007

Si les pays d'ancienne industrialisation sont à l'origine principale du stock de gaz carbonique accumulé dans l'atmosphère, ce seront les grands pays émergents qui vont être dans les prochaines décennies la principale source d'augmentation du niveau mondial d'émission. Parmi eux la Chine occupe une place centrale. En même temps que ce pays va accéder au rang des toutes premières puissances économiques mondiales, il va devenir le plus grand contributeur au dérèglement du climat, en même temps que l'une de ses victimes annoncées. Jusqu'à présent, la Chine a refusé de s'engager de façon contraignante sur quelque objectif quantifié que ce soit, ce qui ne l'empêche pas de développer des politiques énergétiques dans certains domaines. Le rapport Stern a souligné l'urgence d'une action forte et générale devant amener les émissions mondiales à atteindre un pic si possible avant 2020 et pas plus tard qu'en 2030. Un tel objectif sera hors d'atteinte sans la coopération pleine et entière de la Chine. Quelles sont les voies pour y parvenir? La conférence du Professeur Ke Jian a permis d'avoir une appréciation réaliste de la position chinoise et de discerner le type d'accord international qui pourrait être soutenu par Pékin.

Résumé
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol represent the international community?s efforts to address climate change, one of the most challenging environmental problems of the 21st century. In particular, Kyoto Protocol, which is regarded as a EU-led crusade against climate change, is a significant step towards climate change mitigation as it involves targeted emissions reduction commitments by main Annex I countries. Since the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol runs up to 2012, the climate regime beyond 2012 draws more and more attention in the international communities. While there are stronger voices to advocate deeper and broader efforts of GHG mitigation by integrating large and fast-growing developing countries into the climate regime after Kyoto Protocol, the means by which such developing countries as China participate into the climate regime beyond 2012 still remain uncertain and controversial. In order to achieve a successful international climate regime beyond 2012, convergence of diverged views of different countries is essential. Due to its own context of economic development, political choice, social concern, energy security, environmental priority, public awareness, etc., China has a relatively low profile in the climate regime discussions to date as compared with EU. The note argues that the forthcoming climate architecture design should take China?s context seriously in order to incorporate it into the future climate change regime on politically, economically and environmentally viable terms. The note also contends that the future climate regime would be put under the framework of sustainable development rather than under a pure GHG mitigation goal. Based on some empirical analyses of China?s context and international climate change mitigation practices, some constructive suggestions are finally put forward and analyzed.
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