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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 …
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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 …
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China has becoming in 2006 the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), responsible for one-fifth of world … generation capacities substantial investments in China’s energy infrastructure are necessary. But the potential investors are … confronted with uncertainty in the design of China’s future climate policy, which might affect the profitability of GHG emitting …
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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 …
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This paper analyses the current state of the renewable energy in Croatia and proposes what can be done to speed up the process of transition towards the increase in consumption of renewable energy in Croatia. The process of transition is analyzed from the perspective of three main participants...
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This paper examines the China’s coal chemical strategy. As a part of national energy strategy, China’s coal chemical …
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The expansion of wind-generation in the United States poses significant challenges to policy-makers, particularly because wind’s intermittency and unpredictability can exacerbate problems of congestion on a transmission constrained grid. Understanding these issues is necessary if optimal...
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This paper uses a sample of 36 countries for the time period 1990-2011 in order to examine the relationship between countries’ electricity consumption from renewable sources and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) levels. Several nonparametric techniques are applied to investigate the effect of...
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Abstract. The credit market collapse and housing-led economic recession beginning in 2007-2008 have resulted in several million distressed homes in the U.S. that are in various stages of delinquency, default, and foreclosure. Over the past three to four years, a number of private equity...
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This article aims to examine the conditions in which technological innovation can foster and promote sustainable development. It takes into account all forms of technological innovation potential for sustainable development: process innovations, product innovations, organizational innovations,...
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