ChinaEnvironmental &Energy

issues ,policies

Introduction

• Use of energy to run economic activities results in environmental degradation .

• Use of energy from exhaustable resources will lead to energy shortage.

• Solution lies in reducing the exhaustable sources of eenrgy.

• Going for eco friendly methods of production and consumption.

Cont...

• Promoting use of eco friendly technology in production of goods and services.

• Increase use of solar energy to reduce the level of pollution .

• Cultivate the habit of saving eenrgy among the masses .

Environmental issues

• Three environmental issues faced by china:

• Air pollution

• Water pollution

• Co2 emission

Air pollution

• Air is the most polluted in china .

• Sulphur dioxide and soot are the major air pollutants .

• Large use of coal by industrial boilers and furnaces aggravates the problem of air pollution.

• Transportation sector is another amjor source of air pollution.

Water POllution

• Mercury released by coal fired plants leads to water pollution.

• Ground water is polluted by smelters ,runoffs from the factories.

• Heavy use of fertilizers also contaminate the water.

• Cadmium and other metals present in fertilizers turn water toxic.

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• Disposal of waste and other organic matter is another major pollutant of water.

• An unabbated cutting of trees reduces watersupply .

• Blue algae infestation has turned water in lakes toxic.

• Besides pollution ,shortage of water in shanghai ,beijing also adds to miseries of people .

Co2 Emmision

• C02 emmision results in climatic changes thus leading to global warming

• China accounts for 24% of world's energy related carbon emmision.

• China is non-Annex country on united nations framework convention on climate change.

• China's policies aim at cutting energy costs,reducing local pollution rather than reducing carbon emmision for benifit of world.

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• Per capita carbon dioxide emmision from fossil fuel combustion is 3.65tons (Statistics from the International Energy Agency )

• China ranks 2nd in the world behind US in total energy consumption and co2 emmision.

Energy Consumption

• China ccounts for 9.8% of worlds energy consumption (China country analysis brief)

• By 2025 china will be responsible for 14.8% of world's energy consumption .

• Of the 40quadrillion Btu of total energuy consumed ,64% is coal ,26%oil,7% hydro electricity and 3% natural gas.

• Dependence on imported oil has enormously increased over the time.

Laws for environment protection

• In 1979 China passed environmental protection law for trial implementation

• The 1982 contitution includes important environmental provisions

• Based on the provisions many laws were enacted .

• Water pollution prevention and control law 1984,Air pollution and control law 1987are some of the remarkable laws .

Environmental policies

• On national level policies are formulated by state environmental protection Administration (SEPA )

• Role OF SEPA is to dissiminate national environmental policy ,collect data and regulate .

• Cleaner production promotion law was enacted by chinese government in year 2002.

Cont...

• Under cleaner production promotion law demonstration programs for pollution check were carried out in ten major cities .

• Several river valley's were made priority areas and massive pollution check drive was started .

• Lack of market based policy like taxing the polluters is still half away.

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Energy Saving policies

• To curb excessive use of energy ,some concrete steps must be taken .

• Tightening the use of land for further manufacturing activities ,credit supply will ensure a decrease in energy consumption.

• Cancellation of preferential policies for industries like low taxation ,low cost of land .

• Outmoded production methods to be eliminated.

Renewable energy

• Creation and use of renewable energy included in the 11th year plan of china.

• Offset the current use of coal with natural gas.

• Increase use of wind and photovoltaics for electricity generation.

• Use of solar energy is increasing steadly in both urban and rural areas of china.

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