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. China has multiple objectives to develop a low carbon economy and to decrease carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP … protection, poverty alleviation, employment and natural conservation). In this regard, China's actions are more at the active … side than from a pressure outside. However, there are some suspicions in the international society about whether China has …
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … in China, provides some analysis of these energy price reforms, and suggests few areas of reforms could take place in …
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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream theory of economic growth, except for specialized resource economics models, pays no attention to the role of energy. This paper reviews the relevant biophysical theory and...
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The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a hypothesized relationship between various indicators of environmental degradation and income per capita. As economies get richer environmental impacts first rise but eventually fall. In reality, though some types of environmental degradation have been...
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We adopt a new representation of the relationship between emissions and income using long-run growth rates. Our approach allows us to test multiple hypotheses about the drivers of per capita emissions in a single framework and avoid several of the econometric issues that have plagued previous...
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The clearing of forests for agricultural land and other marketable purposes is a well-trodden path of economic development. With these private benefits from deforestation come external costs: emissions from deforestation currently account for 12 per cent of global carbon emissions. A widespread...
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China needs to reduce its carbon emissions if global climate change mitigation is to succeed. Conventional economic … productivity and provide co-benefits that accord with multiple national policy objectives. We track China's progress in reducing … the emissions intensity of the economy, and construct a macro scenario with China's carbon emissions peaking in the 2020s …
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This paper summarises results from the inaugural China Carbon Pricing Survey. The survey elicited expectations about … the future of China's carbon price from China-based experts on carbon pricing and carbon markets during July to September … 2013. The results indicate confidence that all seven of China's pilot schemes will be under way by 2015, with prices rising …
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