Brookings Institution Press has published a new book titled Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? The book draws on expertise from the climate change and development communities to ask how the public and private sectors can help the world's poor manage the global climate crisis. This new publication includes a chapter by Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) President Ned Helme which details the actions China — under its National Climate Change Program — is taking to reduce GHG emissions. From establishing aggressive vehicle efficiency standards for passenger cars to using economic incentives and governmental policies for energy conservation, renewable energy and reducing emissions from energy intensive industries, China is fully joined in the battle to reduce the growth of global GHG emissions.

In his chapter "Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Efforts in China: Progress and Opportunities," Helme discusses the political and economic hurdles that China and other developing countries face in fully implementing their climate plans and how a new global climate change agreement can incentivize and reward developing country actions that go beyond their unilateral efforts.

To purchase a copy of Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? please visit Brookings Institution Press at: http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2009/climatechangeandglobalpoverty.aspx.