The quality of domestic heaters has reached international advanced levels. The wind power target is 3,000 million watts by 2010, and the photovoltaic system is aiming for 300 million watts to provide 20 million people with electricity by 2010. The target for biomass is the equivalent of 4 million tonnes of coal from straw gasification and biogas engineering by 2010. Today's environmental issues are no longer regional or local problems. Recognition is growing that there is only one earth and that its resources are limited.
Environmental degradation is now a serious problem, and effective measures are needed right now.
We must first recognize that the main cause of global warming is the world's developed countries, which emit huge quantities of greenhouse gases into the air because of industrialization and overconsumption. And having 20 percent of the world's population, developing countries are consuming 80 percent of the world's available resources. The developed countries should make major obligations to take immediate action to control greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Despite the urgency of this problem, most developed countries have been unable to fulfill commitments, including a promise to provide 0.7 percent of their GDP as overseas development aid to developing countries, which they made at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Many developed countries are also less than positive about technology transfers, and some representatives seem to hope that it will become a purely commercial activity.