CONTENTS
Ⅰ General Reports
1 Doha Plans for the Future
—The Continuation of Kyoto Protocol and Prospect of Durban Platform ...../001
2 Scientifically Understand and Deal with Extreme Climate
Incidents or Catastrophe ................................................./014
3 The Demand of Low-carbon Finance and Policy Analysis ....................../027
Ⅱ Hot Topics about InternationalLow-carbon Finance
4 New Developments and Structures in Negotiations Related to
International Climate Change Finance Mechanisms ........................../045
5 Comparison of International Experiences of Carbon Trading Systems ........./058
6 Challenges Facing the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) After 2012 ........./075
7 Analysis of the Political and Financial Factors behind EU’s Initiative
to Integrate Civil Aviation Industry into EU ETS ........................./086
Ⅲ Domestic Practices and Explorations onLow-carbon Finance
8 Carbon Trading Market, Energy Reform and Financial Innovation ............./096
9 Progress and Prospect of the Construction of China’s Carbon Trading Market/114
10 Public Finance Mechanism for Low-carbon Transformation .................../123
11 Commercial Banks’ Explorations in the Area of Low-carbon Finance ......../137
12 Practices and Explorations in Marketing Energy-saving Products
through Carbon Finance
——A Case Study of the Marketing of Energy Saving Light Through
the Introduction of PCDM ............................................/147
13 Innovation and Practice of China’s Green Climate Fund
——Using China Green Carbon Foundation as A Case Study ................../157
Ⅳ Climate Change Risks andAdaptation Finance
14 Forecasting Future Extreme Climate Incidents in China and Potential Risks /169
15 Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Benefits in China’s Major River Basins ................................../178
16 Financing Mechanisms for Climate Change Adaptation ......................./190
17 How to Strengthen the Social Insurance System to Increase
the Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change ................................../203
18 Practices and Explorations for Climate Disaster Risk Transfer
——Using Policy-oriented Agricultural Insurance
in Zhejiang as An Example ........................................../215
19 Commercialized Climate Index Insurance in China ........................../225
Ⅴ Special Research Topics
20 Retrospection of Rio+20 and Prospect of Sustainable Development ........../233
21 Rethinking the Position of Carbon Trading and Carbon Tax
in China’s Carbon Reduction Policy System .............................../247
22 China’s Wind & Solar Energy Resources and Their Development Potential .../257
23 How to Deal with Uncertainty in Climate Change Assessment ................/274
Ⅵ Appendix
24 Annex Ⅰ Population of Major Countries & Regions (2011) ................./284
25 Annex Ⅱ Economic Indicators of Major Countries & Regions(2011) ........./287
26 Annex Ⅲ Indicators on Energy and Carbon Emissions of
Major Countries & Regions(2011) ................................/290
27 Annex Ⅳ Population, GDP and Its Structure in Provinces
in China in 2011 .............................................../293
28 Annex Ⅴ Energy Production, Consumption and its Structure
in China (1978-2011) .........................................../294
29 Annex Ⅵ Energy Consumption Per 10,000 RMB GDP for Different Provinces
and Regions in 2011 ............................................/295
30 Annex Ⅶ Global Climate Disasters ......................................./297
31 Annex Ⅷ China’s Climate Disasters ...................................../299
32 Acronyms ................................................................./304
Wang Weiguang, Member of the 18th CPC Central Committee; Vice-President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was born in February 1950, started to work in November 1967 and joined the Communist Party of China in November 1972. He has got a doctorate degree and is a professor and PhD student advisor.
Zheng Guoguang, Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration.
Dr. Zheng Guoguang is responsible for CMA’s overall management. He graduated from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology (renamed the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in 2004) with a Bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Observation, and obtained his Master degree in Atmospheric Physics from the same institute later. He got his doctorial degree of science in physics from the University of Toronto in Canada. He is a part-time professor in the Peking University, a part-time professor and a doctoral supervisor in the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.
In 1996-1997, he was Deputy Director-General, Institute of Strategic Development & Overall Planning of CMA. In 1997-1998, he served as Deputy Director-General of the Fujian Provincial Meteorological Bureau of CMA. In 1998- 1999, he was Director-General, Department of Observation and Telecommunication of CMA. From 1999 to 2007, he was Deputy Administrator of CMA. Since March 2007, he has been serving as the Administrator of CMA.
Dr. Zheng Guoguang also serves as Chairman of the National Climate Committee of China, Chairman of the Chinese Committee of the Global Climate Observing System (CGOS), Member of the National Leading Group to Address Climate Change and Energy Conservation & Pollutant Discharge Reduction and Deputy Director of the Office of the National Leading Group to Address Climate Change, Vice President of the Chinese Meteorological Society, Permanent Representative of China with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Member of the WMO Executive Council, Focal Point of China for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Co-Chair of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), etc.
Green Book of Climate Change in 2012 explores the whole climate financing system, and demonstrates from many diverse perspectives, how China should cultivate the market, such as through high-efficiency trading platforms and multi-level financial services. The authors of this book are consist of more than 30 domestic and international scholars who have conducted long-term research on climate change, energy or climate policy, energy or climate policy, low-carbon finance, or directly participated in international climate change negotiations.