Sunday, March 2, 2008

According to its own statistics, China has seen an increase of nearly 10% in 2005. A figure that, if correct, would raise the country to fourth place in the world's economies, ahead of Great Britain and France. While developed countries are trying to implement sustainable development, China is concerned as a priority to ensure its economic growth. But when the equation becomes insoluble environmental, China will have to draw on Western know-how. Conjugation between a country and a highly polluted creditworthy customer, the market in the Chinese environment represents a tremendous potential.


The first global polluter

The People's Republic exceed, in 2009, the United States as the biggest producer of carbon dioxide (CO2), ten years earlier than planned, according to a report by the International Energy Agency. For his part, the OECD, the club of industrialized countries, believes that China's efforts "are not enough (...) if they are to meet the challenges that rapid economic growth launches the environment. " The organization confirms that the trip to China is already world champion for the production of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions, and that are allocated on the rise since 2002, spraying the maximum set by Beijing. Whether in the air, water or soil, "the Chinese policy ineffectiveness and there is an urgent need to strengthen" according Kiyo Akasaka, Deputy Secretary General of the OECD. Thus, 70% of the water is no longer usable, ie to even the most reprocess, either for consumption or for agriculture, while two million hectares are irrigated with wastewater. In addition, China has recorded an average temperature of 9.9 C in 2006, making 2006 the warmest year in China since 1951, according to the Chinese Meteorological Bureau. Since 1950, there has been a warming trend in most regions of China, either in terms of average annual temperature or winter weather, according to data released by the Bureau of Meteorology.

In the end all of this has an impact on public health. For the anecdote, former Premier Jiang Zemin, when he was appointed a Shanghai said that he had just lost five years of his life expectancy.


Prime Environmental Market

The purpose of power is to quadruple the GDP, and probably needs energy by 2020. But with a double-digit growth, Xie Fuzhan, director of the State Bureau of Statistics (BES) announced last month that his country will not achieve its goal of reducing the energy consumption for 2006. Country energy, the empire in the middle is undermined by its poor environmental efficiency. The relationship between the pollution emitted and production remains extremely ill. Clearly, the first polluter in the world is not the largest producer. According to the World Bank, pollution currently costs between 8 and 12% of GDP. China spends 1.5% of its GDP to the problem of pollution while it is estimated that affect 3%. The challenge for companies is huge. At this place on this market promises of lucrative contracts:

-- Energy: ensure energy supply in a sustainable manner ie without emissions of greenhouse gases. Yet China's economy is an engine, one that today 70% of its energy from coal. The solution lies in the construction of power plants with clean furnace filters and effective. Nuclear power and wind power are also solicited.

-- Water treatment: the majority of the population is still rural and agricultural. Treatment of water for irrigation and consumption is a vital issue.

-- Pollution: brownfields are innumerable. Waste management application specific expertise.

Ultimately, the whole issue and to know when the government will respond. The lack of response to environmental degradation can be indefinitely at the risk of seeing the country sliding into health and social crises. When the Chinese Communist Party deems that this state of affairs threatens its survival will take appropriate measures. The France through companies such as Areva, Suez, or other Véolia have many strengths. More broadly, the countries of the European Union in Brussels constrained by environmental rules the most stringent in the world are taking a serious advance in this area. Even if it costs dearly having today, the gains will eventually be of much higher. We have missed turning digital, do not miss the market of the environment.

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