From the end of November negotiators of more than 190 countries will meet in Paris to try to reach an agreement on global climate change. The world is expecting that countries could agree on commitments to reduce carbon dioxin emissions and also cut the use of fossil fuels. It is promising that China and US reached an agreement on this subject when President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama met in November last year at the sidelines of the APEC summit in Beijing.

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China's leading role in the COP21 meeting
By Carlos Aquino (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-11-30 14:36
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, meets with French President Francois Hollande as he arrived for the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, Nov 29. [Photo/Xinhua]
From the end of November negotiators of more than 190 countries will meet in Paris to try to reach an
agreement on global climate change.The world is expecting that countries could agree on commitments
to reduce carbon dioxin emissions and also cut the use of fossil fuels.
It is promising that China and US reached an agreement on this subject when President Xi Jinping and
President Barack Obama met in November last year at the sidelines of the APEC summit in Beijing.
China also in an action plan submitted to the UN at June this year promised to cut carbon dioxide
emissions per unit of Gross Domestic Product by 60 to 65 percent from the 2005 year by the year 2030
(the double of what India for example is expected to do). Besides this,Beijing would expand the share of
non-fossils fuels in its primary energy consumption to around 20 percent of the country energy basket.
It should be highly commended what China is doing its part to contribute to reach a successfuloutcome
of the Cop 21 meeting. China is the first developing country to have promised to put a cap on CO2
emissions. Not only that,China is already taking steps to use more clean energy. Last year China invested
around 90 billion dollars in the renewable energy sector,more than one quarter of the world total. Also by
the year 2017 it would start a national emission trading system.
In its 13th Five-year Plan to begin in 2016, as China will continue its transition to a low-carbon growth
path, putting emphasis in a service oriented, high technology economy, its emissions of CO2 should be
expected to be reduced. Also people awareness of pollution in China will make its cities cleaner. Beijing
for example is just aiming to reduce PM2.5 particles, which are emitted by vehicles and considered to
make up 31 percent of total pollutants,by 25 percent by the year 2017 from its 2012 levels, as ordered by
the central government.
China can make also a major contribution to the world by supplying it with renewable energy technology.
As the biggest producerand exporter of solar panels, wind turbines, the continuous drop in prices of these
should help developing countries in reducing pollution. Other clean energy where China is putting a lot of
emphasis is biomass energy, hydropower, geothermal energy, and the safe and efficient use of nuclear

2. energy. Already in the nuclear energy sectorChina has achieved a high development and is exporting it to
the world.
The green development path pursued by China should help fulfill the responsibility that it has as the
second largest economy. China already has the technology and the will to contribute to a cleaner world. It
is expected that other countries should follow China example and make commitments for a successful
COP 21 meeting.
The authoris a profesor de Economia Internacional,Economia Asiatica,de la Universidad Nacional
Mayor de San Marcos. UNMSM, Lima, Peru.
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