Experts React To China’s National Emission Trading Scheme

Clean Technica: China will launch a national emission trading scheme. In a joint US-China climate statement, issued as part of President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States, China said its new trading system will cover “key industry sectors such as iron and steel, power generation, chemicals, building materials, paper-making, and nonferrous metals”. On The Conversation, four experts react to this news. “How interesting that China the communist country is introducing the kind of market-based emissions trading scheme that the United States was unable to launch.”

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