Climate Change Research ›› 2010, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (04): 301-306.

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Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate and Its Progress and Perspective

GAO Xiang   

  • Received:2009-09-24 Revised:2010-01-19 Online:2010-07-30 Published:2010-07-30
  • Contact: GAO Xiang

Abstract: Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) has made significant progress in achieving agreement on key global climate change issues, which shows its characters as the weatherglass for UN climate negotiation. However, the substance of MEF is for the developed countries to distract their greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation obligations and international pressure, thus reducing their cost for mitigation actions, by kidnapping the major developing countries, to promote the group-hegemony on global climate change issues. The hardcore of MEF is global emission mitigation, its aim is to create the global market for low-carbon and climate-friendly technologies, so that these major economies with advanced technology would expand the power of dominant position in the world. China should stand with the participating developing countries to insist on the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" to resist motions that would harm the sustainable development of developing countries from unfair base, such as capping for global GHG emission. Moreover, China should take hold of the chance that MEF is pushing on low-carbon development and low-carbon technologies, in order to make itself at the front of the new technology revolution.

Key words: Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, group-hegemony, strategy

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