Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• He, Gang

Titel

Chinese Society and Climate Change

Ist Teil von

• China perspectives, 2007-01, Vol.2007 (1)

Ort / Verlag

Centre d'étude français sur la Chine contemporaine

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At the moment that China signed the Kyoto Protocol at the United Nations on 29 May 1998 (ratification followed on 30 August 2002), most Chinese people knew hardly anything about climate change. Despite the proliferation of government environmental policies during the 1990s((1), Chinese society played absolutely no part in the initiatives for combating climate change. Nevertheless, as Pan Yue, the Chinese Environment Minister, has pointed out, “Without the participation of the public, there can be no protection of the environment.” Mobilising Chinese society to take an active part is all the more important since the fight against climate change will be fought in the area of energy savings: a warning given by the Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, on the occasion of the opening session of the National People’s Congress in March 2007.