The forum on low carbon planning and low carbon evaluation index system, sponsored by The Energy Foundation of United States, was convened in Guangzhou on Nov.9th, 2011. About 30 scholars and experts from home and abroad attended the forum.

During the meeting, prof. Xiulian Hu from Energy Research Institute of National Development and Reform Commission, and prof. Daiqing Zhao from Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, CAS, briefly introduced the background, significance and progress of national and regional low carbon development planning, and then elaborated on the problems and difficulties encountered in the planning process. The experts fully acknowledged the great significance of the research conducted in the low carbon planning and low carbon evaluation index system. By having an in-depth exchange of ideas with each other about how to conquer the problems and difficulties in the research, experts put forward a series of possible solutions from different perspectives and also proposed valuable suggestions for the research in this regard.