produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China’s energy mix, as Beijing … strives to decrease reliance on imported oil and coal, while attempting to meet growing energy demand and maintain a certain …China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …

strong impact on both world and European energy markets. In particular, lower U.S. gas and coal prices have changed relative … energy prices both at home and abroad. Finally, competitiveness impacts in some (sub)sectors will be considerable. These …

-level CES production functions with capital, labour and energy as inputs, and is the first to systematically compare all nesting …

the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …’s energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the pricing completely set by the central government in the …

Increasing oil security represents one of the most important policy actions, especially within IEA countries. Short and … long term mechanisms could help such goal. On the short term side, revision of IEA emergency response oil stock system has … stocks, and an increase in the physical amount of oil stocks. Long term measures for enhancing oil supply security can be …

energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and … difficulty in further carbon mitigation, inevitable emissions growth due to rising living standards, and coal-dominant energy … carbon a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon …