China's proposals for facilitating sustainable global energy development: white paper

BEIJING -- China proposes that the international community should work together on the sustainable development of global energy, address the challenges of climate change, and build a cleaner and more beautiful world, according to a white paper released on Monday.

All countries should choose the green development path, adopt green, low-carbon and sustainable working practices and lifestyles, promote energy transition, and address problems relating to energy, said the white paper titled "Energy in China's New Era" released by the State Council Information Office.

Joints efforts should be made to consolidate multilateral energy cooperation to accelerate the green economic recovery and growth, the white paper said, adding that countries should strengthen transnational and cross-regional innovation on clean-energy and low-carbon technologies, and cooperation on technology standards, to promote energy technology transfer and rollout and improve international intellectual property rights (IPR) protection.

The white paper also called for efforts on jointly facilitating international investment in energy trading to protect global market stability.

To that end, countries should eliminate energy trade and investment barriers, facilitate trade and investment, cooperate on energy resources, industrial capacity and infrastructure, improve connectivity, and promote efficient resource allocation and greater market integration, the white paper said.

Meanwhile, energy access in underdeveloped areas should be improved to address energy poverty, according to the white paper.

Measures such as popularizing advanced green energy technologies, training energy professionals and improving energy services should be taken to integrate the efforts on green energy development and the elimination of energy poverty, it said.