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sparked China’s determination to improve energy efficiency and cut pollutants, and to increase the use of clean energy in …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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This econometric study assesses the efficiency of the income tax credit system implemented in France in 2005 on …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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