Overview of China’s Low Carbon Progress: Policies and Initiatives

In this chapter, we provide an overview of China's low carbon progress in multiple stages. First, we look into China's early exploration before 2005, and then the main years of the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plans (FYPs). We then briefly evaluate the more recent progress of the 13th FYP before exploring the next steps of the 14th FYP, 2030 targets, and the 2060 plan. By exploring these stages, we look into policies and initiatives and progress and actions that have taken place to date. In the later chapters, we provide more details and move towards future directions.