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Energy and Environmental Issues and Policy in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
sparked China’s determination to improve energy efficiency and cut pollutants, and to increase the use of clean energy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732281
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Programs, Prices and Policies Towards Energy Conservation and Environmental Quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China’s efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010813782
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Is It Fair to Treat China as a Christmas Tree to Hang Everybody’s Complaints? Putting its Own Energy Saving into Perspective
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
China had been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. However, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008047
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In What Format and under What Timeframe Would China Take on Climate Commitments? A Roadmap to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In what format and under what timeframe China would take on climate commitments is of significant relevance to China because it is facing great pressure both inside and outside international climate negotiations to exhibit greater ambition and is being confronted with the threats of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642153
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Assessing China’s Energy Conservation and Carbon Intensity: How Will the Future Differ from the Past?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
As an important step towards building a “harmonious society” through “scientific development”, China has incorporated for the first time in its five-year economic plan an energy input indicator as a constraint. While it achieved a quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642154
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China in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
China, from its own perspective cannot afford to, and from an international perspective, is not allowed to continue on the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. The country needs to transform its economy to effectively address concern about a range...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465536
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Free-Riding in Tax Credits For Home Insulation in France: An Econometric Assessment Using Panel Data
Nauleau, Marie-Laure - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
This econometric study assesses the efficiency of the income tax credit system implemented in France in 2005 on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757689
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Distributional Impacts of Energy-Efficiency Certificates Vs. Taxes and Standards
Quirion, Philippe - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Energy efficiency commitments, often associated with tradable energy efficiency certificates, dubbed "white … fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or to buy "white certificates" from other suppliers who exceed their … efficiency, i.e., taxes and standards. Our conclusions are: First, if white certificates are chosen, each supplier's target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423270
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The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy
Gillingham, Kenneth; Rapson, David; Wagner, Gernot - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
What do we know about the size of the rebound effect? Should we believe claims that energy efficiency improvements lead … exogenous increase in energy efficiency, while others examine the effects of a particular energy efficiency policy—a distinction … the energy efficiency rebound, and discuss areas where estimation is extraordinarily difficult. Along these lines, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162052
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Energy Efficiency Policy with Price-quality Discrimination
Nauleau, Marie-Laure; Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan; Quirion, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
We compare a range of energy efficiency policies in a durable good market subject to both energy-use externalities and …-end good. The rates should always be decreasing in energy efficiency. With per-quality subsidies, there is no such interference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268595