French president’s visit in China last month was according to “China Daily” news about climate change issues. I wanted to know more about both countries position on this topic that explains the reason of this article. As organiser of the next UN climate conference in December, it was for F. Hollande a key meeting for the success of French politic power. Indeed China is the biggest emitter for climate change gas in 2015. In the following line, I want to dig out the main expectations of this next conference.
Scientifics fixed the maximum temperature increase at 2°C. Higher this value, climate change could become unpredictable and affect large populations. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted an increase of at least 4.8°C if non audacious politic is lead.
The objectives of the conference are first of all to stay under this barrier of 2°C, which seems to me unrealistic. French government stays optimistic and hope that a binding agreement on energetic transition will be find this winter at Paris. An agreement of 100 billion dollars per year from 2020 is expected. Several countries including United States had already unveiled their plan for greenhouse gas reduction. The implication of US head in the right direction but it doesn’t seem that anything audacious will emerge this year.
According to the journal “The Economist”, china will emit twice American climate change gas in 2015 mainly because its electricity production is based on coal. Even if China installs 20 of the 40 world’s GW of photovoltaic installations, it won’t be enough to meet its electricity demand which growths by 15% a year.
