capita energy consumption of 341.8 million Btu, greater than
5.2 times the world's per capita energy consumption and slightly over 11 times China 's per
capita consumption. Per capita carbon emissions are similar to energy
consumption patterns, with the United States emitting 5.5 metric tons of carbon
per person, the world on average 1.1 metric tons, and China 0.6 metric tons of
carbon per person. With a growing economy and increasing living standards,
however, per capita energy use and carbon emissions are expected to rise.
Although per capita energy use is relatively low, China ’s total consumption of energy
and the resultant carbon emissions are substantial, due to the country's large
population and heavy use of coal.
Concerning the
possible shortage of future energy source, China imported 162.81 million tons
of oil in 2006 as the world’s second largest energy user. Its dependence on
imported oil reached 47 percent, having increased by 4.1 percentage points from
2005. China ’s
rapid increase in oil consumption will contribute to future shortage of this
exhaustible resource.
CO2 Emission
CO2 emissions result in climate changes which are
affecting the world’s physical and biological systems. As of 2001 China accounted for 13 percent, Western European
16 percent and the US
24 percent of the world’s energy related carbon emission. By 2007 China has taken over the US for the
first time as the world’s top producer of greenhouse gases. China is a
non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change. This means that it has not agreed to binding emissions reductions in
the Kyoto Protocol, which it ratified in August 2002. China 's
policies aim at cutting energy costs and reducing local pollution, rather than reducing
carbon emissions for the benefit of the world.
People’s Daily
Online June 4, 2007 reports the following facts:
“According to the Initial National Communication on Climate Change of
the People's Republic of 
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