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China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations … paper provides some reflections on China's stance and reactions at Copenhagen. While China's reactions are generally well … rooted because of realities at home, some reactions could have been handled more effectively for a better image of China. The …
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Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. Given the paramount importance of cities, China is practicing low … characteristics of China's LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China's LCC development …
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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 …
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …
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China's global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention … and scrutiny. This is partly because of China's own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies … energy security as a result of misconceptions and misunderstandings of China's quest for energy security both inside and …
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both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China's energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving … reforms for coal, petroleum products, natural gas, electricity and renewable power in China, and provides some analysis of … these energy price reforms, in order to have the market to play a decisive role in allocating resources and help China …
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Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has … contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path …. We find that in China's initial growth period the small amount of capital stock creates higher dynamic benefits of …
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Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an …, of the mechanism underlining China’s economic transition from an investment-driven, pollution-intensive to an investment … incorporated into China’s growth mechanism, then at some tipping point in time when marginal welfare gain of R&D for knowledge …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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This paper aims to examine the impacts of oil-price shocks on China's price levels. To that end, we develop a partial …-through mechanism during oil-price shocks. Using the models of both China and the U.S., we separate the impact of price control from … those of other factors leading to China's price stickiness under oil-price shocks. The results show a sharp contrast between …
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