ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises the main findings of the book. It concludes that China's climate-related energy policies are bold and ambitious. The major problem associated with the policies lay neither in speed nor in scale, but in coordination, efficiency, integrity, and quality. This book has proposed multiple recommendations for dealing with the identified policy weaknesses. It is hoped that these recommendations will be useful for China's future climate-related energy policy development. China's national carbon trading scheme had been implemented for a year by the time of the completion of this book. The electricity sector was the first sector to enter the scheme and achieved very positive compliance. It is still early to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the scheme, as there will be more sectors entering the scheme in the future. But it is expected the national carbon trading scheme will diversify China's energy and climate change governance approaches, and the carbon market will improve the cost-effectiveness of China's climate change mitigation.
