3. All eyes are on Paris. Will it deliver?
The announcement today marks huge progress, but it must be seen as the starting point for more ambitious actions. From our analysis, China's commitments will have a large impact in the run up to Paris and after, but their ambition falls short of what we had hoped for and what is necessary to keep the world within the safe zone of a two degree temperature rise.
What China's INDC announcement shows more clearly than ever is that all countries at the Paris climate summit must ramp up their ambition, and lock in goals that can potentially avoid catastrophic climate change. From today, all eyes turn to the Paris Climate Conference.
Li Shuo is a climate and energy policy officer with Greenpeace East Asia.