Is authoritarian rule the best way to deliver on climate change?
CW: Well again this is making an interpretation. This is not a simple process. The good thing, positively, is that the government decided to make a commitment. SS: How do you solve the problems presented by this basic fact: China get two thirds of its energy right now from coal, which is the dirtiest form of energy production. How do you overcome that basic fact? “Today it’s a totally different situation…We have the tools and the solutions now.”CW: It is a fact unfortunately… [But when] you look at the action, the investments, the policies, the financing, the technologies, everything here around clean coal technology. It’s happening here already. China actually has now the first supercritical technology units for power generation, which probably has the highest energy-efficiency level – SS: These are just experiments aren’t they? I know your think tank helps to finance these experiments and is very actively involved in pushing new ideas and innovation. But they are still at the tes
