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.

4. We’ve seen many topics related to the world financial crisis this year. A lot of economists and observers have predicted that the European economy will need two to three years to recover. Under such circumstances, will the economic resuscitation influence the carbon assets demand of the European and developing countries?