Influencing China's emissions

In my position at ISC I get to contribute a little to our China program, which has to do with energy efficiency at the community and factory level in Guangdong province (which has more manufacturing jobs than the entire U.S.). Been reading up and found a hopeful sign in terms of reducing China's emissions:

full article here.

"Ironically, although the U.S. government used the absence of key developing countries as an excuse to justify its withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, the sudden disappearance of U.S. pressure on China in 2001 actually made it possible for Beijing to maintain a “wait and see” climate policy for quite a while.

"If the United States is continuously out of the game, European Union alone is unlikely to lure or coerce China into any mandatory climate commitment. In comparison, a consolidated developed world led by both the European Union and the U.S. is more likely to convey the necessity of international cooperation on climate change... China feels that it must be prepared for such a scenario and this largely explains the rationale behind Beijing’s recent endeavor of assessing impacts of climate policy instruments."