Asian cities as low carbon catalysts

A man holds his child who wears a mask while walking on a pedestrian overpass in the haze in Beijing Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (Photo: AAP)

Author: Benjamin Fox, Tunghai University

As the effects of climate change in Asia become more obvious every year, carbon emission reduction policy in the region remains largely inadequate.

During the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, most of Asia’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting nations were considered developing countries and therefore not held to internationally binding agreements to reduce emissions. Read more…