Don we need to aggressively move ahead with new coal technology because China and India are going full-speed into their own coal rush?
That’s why we’re promoting the America Leads scenario. Just look to the mercury treaty; as soon as the U.S. endorsed the goal of mandatory reductions in mercury, India and China, who had long been holding out against the reductions, signed on. By setting an example and developing new technologies, we can make it more likely that developing nations will leap frog over the industrial nation’s fossil fuel based development model into an energy system based on renewables. China has already launched a campaign to get 15% of its energy from renewables by 2020. It also has a higher fuel economy standard for new vehicles of 33 mpg in 2005 and 36 mpg in 2008.
