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.

5. The Kyoto Protocol will expire in 2012, and a new round of negotiations will be held in Copenhagen at the end of this year. What do you expect to be accomplished from this meeting?