China can oiler domestic emission cap-and-trade in post 2012.

The authors opine on China's role in controlling greenhouse gas emissions to address global climate change. Though the authors acknowledge that China appears to be willing to impose a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions, they believe that the country owes more to the effort considering its national contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Instead of achieving a reduction in its energy intensity, China is said to have had an increase in same between 2005 and 2009.