China is the leader of the green energy?

Hong Kong South China Morning Post website reported on May 1: You know that China is the world's most environmentally responsible countries in the past? I admit that this be considered news for me. But if you judge by virtue of the recently published several reports on Beijing to make highly of you will easily produce the following impression in the best environmental measures, China is walking in front of the other countries of the world.

Australian Climate Commission this week released a report co-authored by the leader in the field of the environmental movement - Tim Flannery pointed out that "China's efforts on the issue of climate change, a growing global leadership." .The report said that since 2005, China's wind power capacity has increased 50 times, only last year, the country's solar panels   power production rapidly increased 75%.

Meanwhile, in a separate report released two weeks ago, the Pew Charitable Foundation declared that "China is a world leader in green technology" last year, has invested $ 65 billion for clean energy production. The Foundation, thanks to the investment that China now has 152 GW of renewable energy capacity, more than the level in the United States and the European Union. U.S. renewable energy capacity of 133 GW to 128 GW in the EU.

Australian Climate Commission said that now "China is slowing down in the pace of growth of greenhouse gas emissions". First of all, you will notice the Climate Committee did not say China is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but that the slowdown in the pace of growth. In other words, China's greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing, but not as rapidly only.

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency report, a chart until 2011, the growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions are very alarming. In 2011, emissions of carbon dioxide produced by the combustion of fossil fuels and cement production in China increased by 8.2 million tons, which is equivalent to the sum of the greenhouse gas emissions in Germany and Romania.

Beijing's investment in wind and Photovoltaic Panels power sounds exciting, but in fact is not how impressive. Part of the reason is that the relationship between the installed capacity and the actual energy output. The China Electricity Council said that the low utilization of the country's tens of thousands of wind generators. Although Beijing has been to increase the renewable energy production can invest in, but in the first three months of this year, more than 80% of the country's energy still comes from coal-fired power.

The amount of wind power in the electricity output accounted for only 2%, while the contribution of solar energy which is negligible.
Therefore, despite Beijing's move to invest in wind and solar may be encouraging, but the exact terms of these investments in the foreseeable future to help the Mainland chance to slow down the pace of greenhouse gas emissions is zero.