Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with … its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse … gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are when that would occur and what credible interim targets China would …

economies. However, there has been a lack of empirical study of this kind on China and other developing countries. This paper … attempts to fill this gap by answering how and to what extent oil-price shocks impact China’s economy, emphasizing on the price … differentiated price control policies for materials and intermediates on the one hand and final products on the other hand in China …

available, China is widely expected as the world’s number one host country of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects. But …, making this potential a reality represents a significant challenge for China, because there has been a general lack of …. This has raised great concern about China’s ability to compete internationally for CDM projects and exploit fully its CDM …

The U.S. and China are the world’s largest and second largest CO2 emitters, respectively, and to what extent the U ….S. and China get involved in combating global climate change is extremely important both for lowering compliance costs of … China will take on commitments at some specific point of time in the future, this paper has argued that the proposal for …

the proposal for joint accession by the U.S. and China in the interest of China?, and 2) Even if participating a global … cap-and-trade regime is so beneficial to China as many economic studies suggest, why has China consistently refused in … perspectives: a) how does China value importance of maintaining unity of the Group of 77?; b) what lessons has China learned from …

allowed. Because of a great deal of low-cost abatement opportunities available in the energy sectors of China and India and …

Many economic studies suggest that China would reap significant benefits from participating in a global cap …-and-trade regime. The question then is that even if such a regime is so beneficial to China, why China has consistently refused in … perspectives: a) from the point of view of fairness, how do developing countries including China and India perceive emissions caps …

As the world’s second largest carbon emitter, China has long been criticised as a “free-rider” enjoying benefits from … other countries’ efforts to abate greenhouse gas emissions but not taking due responsibilities of its own. China has been … historical contributions of inter-fuel switching, energy conserva¬tion, economic growth and population expan¬sion to China’s CO2 …

stakeholders. Since the inception in 1999, the PCF has engaged in a dialogue with China to get it to sign up as a host country … (CDM) in China and feel the significant need for building CDM capacity in China to enable it to gain more insight into the … CDM and increase its capacity to initiate and undertake CDM projects. This paper first discusses why China had hesitated …

China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U ….S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community … starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under the Bali Roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on which …