The UK Low-carbon Economic Development And Its Effect Analysis

Global climate change has threatened human beings'survival and development while people's economic activities intensified the change of global climate on the contrary. People have to find a way to sustainable development and low carbon economy was pointed out based on this situation. The concept of low carbon economy has got sincerely concern ever since it was proposed by the Great Britain. Low carbon concept is the product of global climate crisis and gives hope to human beings when facing or about to face potential and predictable climate disaster. As a pattern of economic development, the subject of low carbon economy is to reduce the negative impact on nature in the form of carbon emission reduction while ensuring the economic development at the same time.Under the circumstance of global financial crisis, economic development of Great Britain has to face a new challenge. Consequently, low carbon economy, as a new pattern for tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development, was firstly implemented by Great Britain and successfully becomes their new engine of economic growth. Their valuable experiences and investigations on low carbon economy are definitely worth to be referenced by us.Practically, Great Britain is the first and successful country of the world on the development of low carbon economy. The current situation and related political system was studied in this article, including clarifying the target of carbon emission reduction, building up related legislation, implementing governmental guidance mechanism and financial policies, establishing carbon trading system and carbon trust enterprises and developing low carbon technologies and so on. Decent experiences are summarized based on this study:government support, investment on technology research enhancement, business promotion, stimulating the energy saving and emission reduction process through market mechanism and economic levers tool utilization, and encouraging low carbon consumptions, etc.At the same time. the effect on employing, industry chain, and consumption patterns and so on from low carbon economy implemented in Great Britain was analyzed as well. Its impacts on future development from the promotion of low carbon economy were also pointed out. On the other hand, the prospects of low carbon economy development was forecasted along with the description and analysis of development problems within the situation of financial crisis, cost disadvantages during the process of low carbonization and resource integration obstacles.Finally, the innovation strategy and long term plan in China's way to low carbon development was summarized according to Great Britain's practical experiences and lessons in low carbon economy and society establishment.