Latest comments posted about Coming clean on carbon on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2509-Coming-clean-on-carbon http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2509-Coming-clean-on-carbon Would the friend who made the comment about deceitful headlines please calm down for a while. As one of SynTao officials seeing to this CDP survey in China, I will try my best to answer your questions. Firstly, our survey process was fully open and it was not published as soon as it was finished. We had mailed our survey purpose to all board chairmen involved, and did whatever we could to contact relevant personnel within the companies who were in charge of this matter, but we received a result that was far from ideal. Even though CDP is not perfect, with 6 years of practice, it is basically recognized by many and that is why we continued to use it in this survey. Of course, China has many specifications for statistics, but few of them are specific for carbon emissions. We usually keep in touch with businesses and what we have learnt is that most statistics for carbon emissions from companies are really rough, just a little more than zero. Given this status quo, we hope that GHG Protocal can provide some enlightenment to Chinese enterprises on how to start collecting carbon data. So, we were not making deceitful headlines. We hope our constructive attitude will stimulate more companies to deal with the climate changes proactively and scientifically. As for another friend who mentioned the "inefficiencies", I take it many companies consider that their priorities are markets and sales and they have "no time", "no energy" to think about the "inefficiencies". Thus, many lose sight of waste from carbon emissions. Translated by Ming Li Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:30:29 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-8011 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-8011 Reading the comment above, I would like to add that a company should be able to question the statistic system and give reasons why it does not want to participate, instead of disclosing no information. A company should not remain silent when its own carbon emission situation is asked. Translated by Ming Li Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:31:54 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-7962 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-7962 Before you request to have carbon emission rates published, you should first publish the relevant content of the survey questionnaire, because some questionnaires are based on ill intentions which make it difficult for industries to answer. This is the main reason for the poor results of your questionnaire. Can this structure be re-considered? In addition, China has a very mature statistics system which is just in the process of being improved. Is the data system of this survey kept in accordance with the requirements of the statistics system? What conditions do you request from people according to your system report? What do people rely on to be in accordance with your system? Apart from the loss of carbon emissions data, are there any other additional data collection opportunities? Please be more clear about this. I don't want to assume that your article is deceitful, nor that you wish to randomly startle people with what you say. "The comment was translated by Ellen Schliebitz." Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:26:55 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-7958 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-7958 The depressing thing about this low response rate is that it seems to indicate that Chinese companies are not concerned about waste and inefficiencies. Carbon accounting is also a means of accounting for energy.. and if you can't measure it you can't manage it. Given the national targets for energy efficiency, why are companies not more concerned. Any discharge form the production process... air pollution, carbon, water pollution represents a wasted opportunity. Shouldn't Chinese companies be trying to raise their game -- or are they too cushioned by subsidies to care? Can anyone explain? Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:46:17 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-7961 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2509#comment-7961