Capital Intensive China

China gears up for Copenhagen

  • Published 26 Nov 2009

As China prepares for the Copenhagen summit, wind power shows both the scale of its ambition and the size of the challenge it faces.

The Copenhagen United Nations summit on climate change in December is now not likely to yield a legally-binding agreement. The best that can be hoped for is a "political deal" with key countries pledging to meet numerical targets on emissions by 2020 and beyond. With so much haggling left to do, it would be rash to predict what targets China may commit to. However, as we have said previously (CC June 11 2009, In Depth), Beijing will not want to be seen to be dragging its feet.

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