Abstract: China is a developing country, and the most important thing for China is to develop economy and to improve the living standard of its people. It is reasonable for China to say that after becoming a medium developed country, it will take on quantitative commitments. Compared with some EU countries that can increase CO2 emission, the per capita energy consumption, per capita CO2 emission, per capita GDP and some human development indicators of China are much lower than them. It is reasonable that China should increase CO2 emission in order to meet the basic demand of economic and social development. Before becoming a medium developed country, China could consider taking on non-binding commitments, such as to keep the stabilization of the emission intensity per GDP in a certain period of time.

Key words: greenhouse gas, climate change negotiations, policy, CO2 emission intensity