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 …

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 …

with their WTO obligations may well arise in implementing the Kyoto Protocol, given that Article 2 of the Protocol gives … respect to the WTO consistency and the conditions under which border taxes can be adjusted to accommodate a loss of … polices and WTO rules. It highlights their potential conflicts, and argues that such conflicts can be avoided or at least …

should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change. This paper presents the … key issues surrounding liberalized trade in climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods … negotiations. It begins with what products to liberalize and in which manner. Clearly, WTO environmental goods negotiations to date …

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 …

change to the change in China’s energy consumption in the 1980s. However, no detailed analysis to date has been done to … filled this gap by investigating the change in energy consumption in China’s industrial sector in the 1990s, based on the … growth rate dramatically in line with the belief that the growth rate of China’s GDP may be overestimated. …

AIJ/JI remains virtually unknown to the majority of social and economic sectors in China as in most developing countries …, it is still unrealistic to expect that AIJ/JI projects with China work as smoothly and fast as the developed countries … wish. This underlines the need to promote JI through pilot projects in China's interest and capacity building in China in …

carbon emission limits for China, this paper provides the economic rationale for the industrialized countries to invest in JI … projects in developing countries like China, where the costs of abating greenhouse gas emissions are lower than trying to … areas for JI projects that may be in China's interest. This discussion underlines that taking due consideration of local …

China is concerned about the security of its sea-lanes for imports and desires to diversify its oil supplies from the … Middle East in order to sustain economic growth. These concerns have sparked China’s interest in trying to ensure oil … supplies from as many sources as possible and in reducing its overwhelming reliance on seaborne imports of oil, which, in China …