Testimony Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Measuring, Monitoring, and Reporting Energy and Climate Data
Executive Summary
Deborah Seligsohn的证词
Senior Advisor, China Climate and Energy Program
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Hearing Before The Congressional-Executive Commission on China
China's System for Measuring, Monitoring, and Reporting Energy and Climate Data
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我很高兴今天与您谈论中国的衡量，监控和报告能源和气候数据的系统，如何实施这些系统以及继续建立能力并改善这些系统的机会。必威官网是真的吗
Measurement and reporting systems provide information for a number of different purposes. It is important to distinguish the functions we expect the system to provide – both in the development of the system itself, and in the evaluation of the system’s effectiveness and utility. Energy and climate data can be collected or disseminated for three purposes:
Measuring overall progress through national-level data. This is the essential level for evaluating any country’s commitments to any international climate regime. It is the level at which we compare country commitments. It is also essential for the country’s own purposes in considering energy and climate policy in the context of overall macro-economic policy.
Measuring the impact of specific programs or players – in other words the data needed for energy and climate policymakers to track progress toward specific policy goals. This includes measuring at the sub-national level since China allocates provincial and local quotas. It would include sectoral or company-level reporting to enforcement bodies (to the extent that enforcement is at those levels). Finally, it includes programmatic data – metrics collected to assess the progress of specific energy or climate programs.
Providing data that civil society can access (public transparency). The transparency function can occur at all levels from national to the local.
It is important to distinguish these three functions and the types of data needed to meet each goal, as well as the separate history of each type of data collection and dissemination in the international sphere.