tailieunhanh - Finance climate: China's experiences and lessons for Vietnam

This paper studies the experiences of China in the set up of policy and use efficiency finance climate address climate change. As predicted, Vietnam is a country affected greatly by climate change and sea level rise due to warming of the Earth. The learned lessons in the mobilization and use of climate finance from China are essential towards a green economy and sustainable, which the Vietnam government has set. | 108 Journal of Science Ho Chi Minh City Open University - No. 4 16 2015 - December 2015 FINANCE CLIMATE CHINA S EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS FOR VIETNAM Nguyen Hung Cuong Faculty Transport Economic University of Transport Technology Email ctm4hu@ Received 11 08 2015 Revised 11 11 2015 Accepted 07 12 2015 ABSTRACT Following decades of rapid economic growth China is in the process of restructuring its economy to make future growth more sustainable in social economic and environmental ways. Today China is the world s largest investor in clean energy and also energy efficiency. With the strong support of government and mobilize many finances from public private and foreign capital sources climate finance plays an important role in the successes of China in the process of transformation to the environment friendly economy. This paper studies the experiences of China in the set up of policy and use efficiency finance climate address climate change. As predicted Vietnam is a country affected greatly by climate change and sea level rise due to warming of the Earth. The learned lessons in the mobilization and use of climate finance from China are essential towards a green economy and sustainable which the Vietnam government has set. Keywords China climate finance environment China climate change. 1. Introduction Over the last three decades China has experienced remarkable growth transforming the country into the second largest economy in the world. The growth largely driven by heavy industry and export oriented manufacturing has also made China the largest energy consumer as well as the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses GHGs in the world. This has come at a steep price to its environment and as the economy continues to grow the environmental challenges will inevitably escalate. China is in the process of restructuring its economy growth toward more sustainable economic and environment friendly. China has strongly invested in low carbon technologies over the past few