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Zhang, Z. (2010). Assessing China’s Carbon Intensity Pledge for 2020:  Stringency and Credibility Issues and their Implications. FEEM Note di  lavoro No. 2010.158, Dec 2010.http://www.feem.it/userfiles/attach/20101223958564NDL2010-158.pdfJust prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its  carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels to help  to reach an international climate change agreement at Copenhagen or  beyond. This raises the issue of whether such a pledge is ambitious or  just represents business as usual. To put China’s climate pledge into  perspective, this paper examines whether this proposed carbon intensity  goal for 2020 is as challenging as the energy-saving goals set in the  current 11th five-year economic blueprint, to what extent it drives  China’s emissions below its projected baseline levels, and whether China  will fulfill its part of a coordinated global commitment to stabilize  the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere at the  desirable level. ( © FEEM)