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China’s rapid growth over the past twenty years has sparked a surging demand for energy. The Chinese made strenuous efforts to exploit their domestic resources; but growth eventually overwhelmed them and led to rising oil imports. Within the next decade, China’s oil imports are expected to...
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Mind the Gap is an unprecedented attempt to quantify the size of one of the most pervasive barriers to energy efficiency – principal-agent problems, or in common parlance, variations on the ‘landlord-tenant’ problem. In doing so, the book provides energy analysts and economists with unique...
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The International Energy Agency's 2003 review of Japan's energy policies and programmes. This edition finds that Japan … the liberalised electricity market and to improve the performance of the existing nuclear units. Japan has begun to reform …
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This review takes an in-depth look at the energy challenges facing Japan today and provides critiques and … and environment as a top priority of the 2008 G8 Summit in Hokkaido, host country Japan has demonstrated its commitment to … climate change goals – Japan is the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter – strengthening the value on greenhouse gas …
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