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 …

Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China’s own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its carbon … open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other side, the inclusion of … imported products. Being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs to, at a right time, indicate a …

the proposal for joint accession by the U.S. and China in the interest of China?, and 2) Even if participating a global … cap-and-trade regime is so beneficial to China as many economic studies suggest, why has China consistently refused in … perspectives: a) how does China value importance of maintaining unity of the Group of 77?; b) what lessons has China learned from …

allowed. Because of a great deal of low-cost abatement opportunities available in the energy sectors of China and India and …

system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of …

China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. 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 regime under the Bali Roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on which …

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 …