![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Dec. 2nd, 2011 09:35 pmhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/china-sifting-co2-measurements_n_1126016.html
Xu Huaqing, a senior researcher for China's Energy Research Institute, was quoted Friday in the semiofficial China Daily as saying Beijing could set absolute caps on its carbon emissions – comments later confirmed privately by one of China's top climate negotiators on the sidelines of the international climate talks in South Africa.
It was the first time China has mentioned a timetable toward a hard emissions cap, the article said, and was seen as a significant move by veteran China watchers.
Until now, China has spoken of emissions controls purely in terms of energy intensity, or the amount of energy it uses per unit of economic production. It pledged last year to reduce its energy input by 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
~ ~ ~
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/epa-eases-boiler-regulations_n_1125933.html
Industrial boilers burn coal and other fuels to generate steam and hot water for heat and electricity. They're the nation's second-largest source of mercury emissions, a potent neurotoxin, after coal-fired power plants. But boilers are among a handful of pollution sources that still have no standards for toxic emissions.
EPA tries to put in standards, and people whine they're from another planet. Could it be... Planet Earth?
Xu Huaqing, a senior researcher for China's Energy Research Institute, was quoted Friday in the semiofficial China Daily as saying Beijing could set absolute caps on its carbon emissions – comments later confirmed privately by one of China's top climate negotiators on the sidelines of the international climate talks in South Africa.
It was the first time China has mentioned a timetable toward a hard emissions cap, the article said, and was seen as a significant move by veteran China watchers.
Until now, China has spoken of emissions controls purely in terms of energy intensity, or the amount of energy it uses per unit of economic production. It pledged last year to reduce its energy input by 40 to 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
~ ~ ~
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/epa-eases-boiler-regulations_n_1125933.html
Industrial boilers burn coal and other fuels to generate steam and hot water for heat and electricity. They're the nation's second-largest source of mercury emissions, a potent neurotoxin, after coal-fired power plants. But boilers are among a handful of pollution sources that still have no standards for toxic emissions.
EPA tries to put in standards, and people whine they're from another planet. Could it be... Planet Earth?
