Different impacts of global climate changes on energy policies and industrial structures on developing nations? An Asian perspective

To solve the global warming effects and to prevent the climate changes, the United Nations had designed to control the enlarging problem of emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Because the reduction of the use of greenhouse gases will definitely impact the subsistence and future development of global trade system, this issue was widely debated and emphasize in the whole world. Through a long discussion and negotiation, western countries had started to reduce the emission of major greenhouse gases such as CO2 etc. Except western countries, the reduction timetable for developing countries especially Asian booming economies had been focused for recent rounds. It is believed that the effect of global climate change and Kyoto Protocol would play a vital role and become an important factor in the development of human history. It is because the reduced timetable will bring wide and deep influences on industrial structures, energy policies, and economic growth. To avoid foreseeable international trade sanctions and make a suitable position in the practice of UNFCCC, Asia countries’ emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gases had been discussed and managed abruptly. Many Asian governments also had taken adaptable measures including protection of forestry, waste disposal control, efficient energy use, industrial structure modification, etc. In the aspect of industrial policies, to decrease the portions of energy-consuming industries such as Petroleum-chemical and steel industries will be the first task taken in those measures. In addition, since western countries had brought heavy burdens on greenhouse gases emission through industrialization revolution, would those arrangements bring a better living standard or environmental justice for developing nations in Asian? Aimed for this purpose, the paper will debate the legal ideas between energy policies and industrial structure and hope to provide concrete suggestions concerning the issue of global warming effects based on Asian countries experiences.