China 鈥榦n track鈥 over pollution
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CHINA is back on track to meet mandatory targets on cutting pollution and improving energy efficiency by 2015, a state planning official said yesterday, after the program had fallen behind due to strong economic growth in 2011 and 2012.
Decades of unrestrained growth has hit China’s environment hard, and news of hazardous pollution levels in food has become common.
China has promised to tackle the severe pollution of its air, water and soil, but admitted late last year it was struggling to meet targets for the 12th five-year plan period ending in 2015.
Central and local government authorities are now adopting tougher measures and have also developed more effective incentive mechanisms, putting China back on course, said Xu Lin, director of the National Development and Reform Commission’s planning office.
Over the 2011-2015 period, China is aiming to cut energy intensity — the amount of energy consumed per unit of economic growth — by 16 percent and the amount of carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 17 percent. It also promised to raise the share of non-fossil fuels in its overall energy mix to 11.4 percent.
By the end of 2013, energy intensity fell 9.03 percent and carbon intensity fell 10.68 percent from 2010 levels, while non-fossil fuels supplied 9.8 percent of China’s total energy needs last year, the NDRC said in a report this week.
Xu said targets in the next five-year plan were expected to be even tougher.
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