Experts urge China to adopt low-carbon economy

China should develop a low-carbon economy, as a way to drive economic growth without mitigating the effects of global warming, experts on climate change said at a seminar held in Beijing on Monday and yesterday.

The seminar, entitled "The Low-Carbon Economy and China's Energy & Environmental Policy" was organized by the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, which comes under the country's top environmental administration.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under the Untied Nations, said: "China should prepare a road map of how to move to a low-carbon economy and how the cost of such a move can be met.