ABSTRACT
China's current energy policy is based on holistic socioeconomic objectives of simultaneously achieving sustainable economic development and energy conservation. However, long-term strategies and viable targets relating to the implementation of a "Blueprints" policy are required for national climate change governance. In the future, China will engage in international negotiations and global governance on climate change and will accept some climate change–related rules that can provide the impetus and opportunities for implementing sustainable energy policies and good environmental governance. More importantly, the grim climate change situation will exacerbate the pressure on countries to reduce emissions. Currently, both the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Roadmap reductively cleave the world's population of more than six billion and over 200 countries into two distinct groups: developing and developed countries. The Chinese government attaches great importance to addressing climate change. As early as 1993, the National Climate Change Coordination Group was established.
