By Zhou Jing & Wang Ke
China.org.cn Multimedia Team

As the effect of global warming increases, saving energy and reducing emissions are becoming more and more significant. The Kyoto Protocol will expire in 2012—what kinds of clean changes will the world employ for development? And what’s the role of carbon in solving global climate change?

Guglielmo Cioni, a former official in the Italian Environment Ministry and General Manager of the Green Initiative Carbon Assets, discusses with China Talk about how the world can develop more cleanly in the future.

1. Saving energy and reducing emissions are hot topics today. Would you please give a brief introduction of the world clean development mechanism? What’s the mechanism’s background and how exactly does it operate? What kind of projects can be categorized under the clean mechanism? More >>>