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Chinese climate policy : institutions and intent / Ed. by William C. Ramsay and Jacques Lesourne. Paris : IFRI, juillet 2011, 126 p. (coll.  études)http://www.ifri.org/downloads/001126hd.pdfPrésentation de l'éditeur :Until the late 1990s, the balance of Chinese energy production and  consumption was treated by the rest of the world as a net figure. No one  knew what was going on inside the Chinese economy – it was a black box.  As far as anyone was concerned, the Chinese would not soon be a major  factor in world energy markets.Energy policymakers realized how  totally blind they were in 2004 when Chinese electricity production  could not keep up with internal demand and the world experienced a surge  in liquids demand as Chinese entrepreneurs fired up generator sets  across the economy.No country has confronted the need to collect  data and formulate coherent policy for nearly a billion and a half  consumers. A number of institutional arrangements have succeeded each  other until now, when stronger energy policy and administrative  functions of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) are  gaining traction. NDRC vice-chairman Zhang Guobao has maintained a  steady hand on Chinese energy-policy evolution for several years –  overseeing the increasing coherence of Chinese domestic and  international energy policy – but the tension with powerful state  enterprises and other vested interests still effectively defies efforts  to truly centralize Chinese national-level energy policy and program  authority.This study identifies the nature of the forces that  drive or constrain change within China’s energy sector, and explores the  Chinese approach to climate change. (© IFRI)