China is signing up for another push to improve the efficiency of its smokestack economy. The government has committed to reduce the country’s energy intensity – the energy consumed per unit of output – by 17.3 per cent as part of its next five-year plan. While cutting energy intensity has been criticised as a poor substitute for capping emissions, this is still a welcome ambition for the world’s largest energy consumer. Whether it will deliver is another matter.
中國正承諾再次努力,提高偏向重工業(yè)的中國經(jīng)濟的能源效率。在下一個五年計劃中,中國政府承諾將中國的能源強度(單位國內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值的能耗)降低17.3%。盡管批評人士稱,降低能源強度不應(yīng)代替確立排放上限,但對全球最大能源消費國來說,這仍是一個可喜的雄心。至于中國能否兌現(xiàn)承諾則是另一回事。
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