continue becoming thefirst to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 and
assist developing countries to contribute more to addressing climate change. Both
sides were committed to making continued efforts within the United Nations system
and called upon all parties concerned to actively and constructively participate in
the United Nations Climate Change Conference on Bali Island in December 2007.^29
Both sides held ministerial consultations on climate change and released theChina-
EU Joint Declaration of Climate Change Dialogue and Cooperationin 2010. Both
sides agreed to step up efforts according to the Bali Roadmap and work closely in
two ad hoc working groups relating to theUnited Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Changeand the Kyoto Protocolso that active achievements and
meaningful progress were made at the Cancun Climate Change Conference in late
2010.^30 This showed that the two sides had once again reached a consensus on the
“dual-track”negotiation issue, creating good cooperation conditions for making
progress during the Cancun Conference and the Durban Conference.
9.4 Considerations for Dealing with China-EU Climate
Relations in the Future
Enhanced cooperation in global climate governance helps address matters of China
and the EU and the status of both sides in the international arena.
9.4.1 Low-Carbon Environmental Trade
Low-carbon development has influenced every country through global economic
and trade activities. Infiercely competitive global low-carbon economic and trade
activities, trade protectionism has emerged. Such issues as carbon tariffs,
low-carbon certifications, carbon labels, etc. have been used as technical barriers to
trade; anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations against clean energy products
have also become the major obstacles affecting China-EU low-carbon economic
and trade relations. In handling frictions relating to low-carbon trade, China and the
EU must heighten consultations and dialogues in order to avoid a trade war; both
sides should establish industrial early-warning mechanisms to control trade frictions
and they should also consider the establishment of institutionalized consultation
mechanisms specially applied to trade in clean technology products.
(^29) Joint Declaration of the 10th China-EU Leaders’Meeting,http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/
200712/1204_17_319972.shtml, accessed on March 8, 2013.
(^30) TheChina-EU Joint Declaration of Climate Change Dialogue and Cooperation,http://www.
gov.cn/gzdt/2010-04/29/content_1595630.htm, accessed on March 8, 2013.
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