Quotable

"China is now so central to the global energy market that whatever is done will send waves around the world. My bet is that we are about to see the government limit coal use, with peak coal coming much sooner than the usual predictions suggest. Any advance in the technology of renewables anywhere in the world will be seized upon and applied. Gas imports will continue to grow."

Nick Butler, visiting professor and chair of the King's Policy Institute at King's College London.

(China Daily European Weekly 04/10/2015 page3)