subject: Low-carbon Economy Will Expand Regional Cooperation In Asia Content - Solar Energy - Solar Power [print this page] Scheduled for April 9 -11 at the tropical seaside town of Hainan Boao Forum for Asia held in Boao, 2010 Annual Meeting, will focus on the financial crisis in Asian countries and regional development needs of low-carbon economy, reality and possibility.
The end of the Copenhagen climate summit, the global focus of multilateral and bilateral negotiations are turning to climate change and carbon emissions, carbon trading issues.
To promote regional economic cooperation in Asia as a long-term goal of the Boao Forum for Asia, the changing situation, determine the annual meeting to discuss the theme of "Green recovery: practical choice for sustainable development in Asia", and will hold "Asian Development Model thinking "," low-carbon Energy : Opportunities in Asia leading the world "and a series of thematic sessions.
Analysts pointed out that this shows that continue to advocate the Boao Forum for Asia in the Asian regional economic cooperation, will further explore the road to sustainable development in Asia, regional cooperation in Asia reveals a new direction and new ideas.
Boao Forum for Asia, said the Secretary-General Long, Boao Forum for Asia annual meeting 2010, Copenhagen climate summit, the Asian countries and regions in government, academia, business for the first time on a low-carbon economic development at the high-end dialogue on Asia region to respond to low-carbon economy of the new challenges, new opportunities, is important.
His view, a fundamental solution to the economic development and environmental protection conflicts between, we must strengthen international exchanges and cooperation to jointly cope with global climate change. Low-carbon economy and its technology for countries in the world is a new topic, standards and regulations currently in development phase, is fighting for the rights of developing countries to form a pattern conducive to the development of a critical period, Asian countries and regions need to strengthen cooperation with this exchange.
Present, Europe and the United States and other developed countries have formed a direct investment financing, bank loans, trading carbon credits, carbon options futures and other financial instruments to support a series of carbon financial system. Some large-scale carbon trading centers were established, such as the EU carbon emissions trading system, the European Climate Exchange.
Contrast, although the concept of low-carbon economy has gradually entered the Asian countries and regions of the real economy and began to play its role, but still in the carbon chain and the lower end of the transaction chain.
China (Hainan) Reform of vice president of the Miao Shubin believes that the long term, low-carbon economy will promote the Asian countries and regions, economic restructuring, promotion of the extensive growth mode changes to the way of sustainable development; but the short term, Asian countries and regions to face the interests of all parties game. Asian countries and regions should coordinate their positions, market rules to participate in the establishment of a low carbon economy.
His analysis, in the context of economic globalization, a country's low-carbon economic policies created the market demand, will attract many countries to increase production and supply, thus creating new investment and trade needs. Therefore, the low-carbon economy will expand between Asian countries and regions of investment and trade areas, such as the development of low-carbon economy in China will form a huge new market space, to change China's trade with neighboring countries, investment structure, and regional economic cooperation .
Climate summit in Copenhagen on the eve of the Chinese government announced that China's unit of GDP by 2020 carbon emissions below 2005 levels by 40%? 45%. A McKinsey report says China to build "green economy" from now to 2030, at least 40 trillion investment that is required every year about 2 trillion yuan of investment, can be effective, "green economy . "
According to statistics of Ministry of Environmental Protection, as of the end of 2008, total output value of China's energy-saving environmental protection industry was 1.55 trillion yuan, equivalent to GDP of 5.17%, number of employees more than 3000 million. Department of Environmental Protection Wu Xiaoqing, vice minister predicted that the policy promoted by the Chinese environmental protection industry in the coming period will remain 15% to 20% annual compound growth rate. South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan in
exclusive interview with Xinhua that as China's economic structure from investment to consumption and exports to domestic demand as the center of the field of economic cooperation between the two countries will further deepen and expand, will be low carbon economy, green growth areas such as new engine of growth centers, to carry out mutually beneficial cooperation.
This year, not only the continuing drought several provinces in southwest China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries suffered a severe drought, this situation indicates that China and ASEAN should take measures to expand cooperation in areas of content and to jointly respond to climate change on economic development and social stability.
