{"word_count": 213, "character_count": 1468}
Breaking the Impasse in International Climate  Negotiations: A New Direction for Currently Flawed Negotiations and a Roadmap  for China to 2050 / ZhongXiang Zhang. FEEM, 2011, 18 p. (Note di lavoro ; 2011.049)http://www.feem.it/userfiles/attach/2011623936504NDL2011-049.pdfChina’s unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by  2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both the stringency issue, and given  that China’s pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues  concerning China’s statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China’s  commitments differ in form from those of other major greenhouse gas emitters,  China is constantly confronted with both criticism on its carbon intensity  commitment being less stringent and the threats of trade measures. In response  to these concerns and to put China in a positive position, this paper will map  out a realistic roadmap for China’s specific climate commitments towards 2050,  with its main distinguishing features including China taking on absolute  emission caps around 2030 and the three transitional periods of increasing  climate obligations before that. With current international climate negotiations  flawed with a focus on commitments on the targeted date of 2020 that does not  accommodate well the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters, the paper  suggests a new direction to break the current impasse in international climate  negotiations. (© author)