subject: Here Is An Introduction About The Low-carbon Economy [print this page] Low-carbon means less greenhouse gases emissions, especially the carbon dioxide. Low-carbon economy is an economic model based on the low power consumption, low pollution and low-emission. It is another major progress for human society after the agricultural civilization and industrial civilization. The essence of Low-carbon economy is to use energy efficiently, exploit clean energy and pursuit of green GDP, the core of it is the energy technology innovation, system innovation and the fundamental change of concept of human survival and development. The concept of Low-carbon economy was firstly seen at government document in the UK in 2003 the Energy White Paper called our energy future: creating a low carbon economy. In the matter of systemic talking about a low carbon economy, it should be traced back to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and Kyoto Protocol in 1997.
Low-carbon economy is proposed with the background of the challenges to human survival and development due to the world's climate warming. As the global population and economic scale growing, environmental problems caused by energy use constantly has been recognized by people. In this context, many new concepts such as carbon footprint, low-carbon economy, low-carbon technologies, low-carbon development, low-carbon lifestyle, low-carbon society low-carbon World and low-carbon city appear, at the same time, new policy turns up. In December 3, 2007, the United Nations Climate Change Conference formulated the Bali road map, which calls for developed countries reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% -40% in 2020. Bali road map is a landmark and plays a positive role on moving towards a low carbon global economy.
The theme of the 2008 World Environment Day is to change the traditional concepts, the implementation of low-carbon economy, which is put by United Nations Environment Programme. In the same year in July, eight countries in G8 summit said they would seek the other signatories who had signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to work together to achieve the long term goal that reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050. Thus, the low-carbon economy based on the low power consumption and low pollution would become the world's hot spots.
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