Taking out one billion tones of carbon: the magic of China's 11thFive-Year Plan

Conference · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI ID:925592

Lin, Jiang; Zhou, Nan; Levine, Mark D; Fridley, David

China's 11th Five-Year Plan (FYP) sets an ambitious targetfor energy-efficiency improvement: energy intensity of the country sgross domestic product (GDP) should be reduced by 20 percent from 2005 to2010 (NDRC, 2006). This is the first time that a quantitative and bindingtarget has been set for energy efficiency, and signals a major shift inChina's strategic thinking about its long-term economic and energydevelopment. The 20 percent energy intensity target also translates intoan annual reduction of over one billion tons of CO2 by 2010, making theChinese effort one of most significant carbon mitigation effort in theworld today. While it is still too early to tell whether China willachieve this target, this paper attempts to understand the trend inenergy intensity in China and to explore a variety of options towardmeeting the 20 percent target using a detailed endues energymodel.

• Research Organization: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 925592
• Report Number(s): LBNL--62886
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
CARBON
CHINA
ECONOMICS
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENERGY MODELS
Energy intensity carbon China Five-Year-Plan target energypolicy end-use energy model decomposition
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
MITIGATION
TARGETS