題 目：Low Carbon Development for the Least Developed Regions
主講人：Dr. Dabo Guan University of Cambridge
時 間：2011年7月16日 上午10:00
地 點：主樓六層會議室
主講人簡介：
Dr. Dabo Guan a Senior Research Associate and Research Fellow at Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He has been recently selected as a lead Author for the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He specializes in international climate change mitigation policies, climate change adaption and modeling, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water accounting and water resources management, input-output techniques and their applications in both developed and developing countries.
內容簡介：
China has been the world top CO2 emitter since 2007, and it is believed that the significant emission growth will continue in next few decades a long with the expanding its industrialization process to those least developed regions in western provinces. China has demonstrated its ambition to play an active role in tacking climate change by establishing the 40%-45% reduction target on carbon intensity prior to Copenhagen. However, the gradual shifts of those low value-added but carbon intensity manufacturing facilities from eastern to western China would put the achievement in doubt. Helping the least developed regions to leapfrog from carbon intensive industrialization is an effective way to combat climate change. However there is no international agreed definition about low carbon development. The paper starts with the options and uncertainties in low carbon development research, and then adopts Guangyuan city – a resource intensive based economy in a western province (Sichuan) as a case study to analyse the opportunities and barriers for economically lack-behind regions to achieve the so-called low-carbon development. In particular, the paper investigates the key driving forces of current CO2 emission in Guangyuan and discusses its possible low-carbon futures by doing scenario analysis.
（承辦：能源與環境政策研究中心）
