Abstract
The world’s manufacturing warehouse, China, is set for a period of growth whichbrings about the biggest transformation of human well-being the earth has everseen. The growth is fuelled by new coal power plants in China, two a week. Asif that weren’t enough: the biggest coal plants of their kind are currently built ina country where climate protection is said to be at the top of the agenda – inGermany. And with every coal plant comes a 40-year legacy for a warmer climate.With this staggering news we can begin to understand why climate protection mightbe harder to achieve and Sheehan (2008) in this issue, or Raupach et al. (2007)highlight the sobering prospects of steeply increasing emissions if we follow thecarbon-intensive path we are on. Sheehan (2008) and a related report by Garnautand colleagues (Garnaut 2008) makes the case that Chinese economic growth hasbeen underestimated in the past and that this growth is likely to be fueled in a morecarbon intensive way than the IPCC SRES and EMF scenarios have assumed. Thebottom line, according to Sheehan, is that global fossil CO
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