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Energy and Environmental Issues and Policy in China

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013

China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international perspective, is not meant to continue on the...

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The voracity effect and climate change: The impact of clean technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011

We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...

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Capital-embodied Technologies in CGE Models

Lennox, James; Parrado, Ramiro - 2015

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used to analyse macroeconomic and sectoral effects of climate policies. Developing new and improving existing carbon-free energy technologies will be crucial to limit the long-term economic costs of mitigation policies. Such technologies are...

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Carbon Leakage Revisited: Unilateral Climate Policy with Directed Technical Change

Di Maria, Corrado; van der Werf, Edwin - 2006

A common critique to the Kyoto Protocol is that the reduction in emissions of CO2 by countries who comply with it will be (partly) offset by the increase in emissions on the part of other countries (carbon leakage). This paper analyzes the effect of technical change on carbon leakage in a...

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Advances and Slowdowns in Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Development

D’Aprile, Aurora - 2016

removals by sinks” in the second half of this century. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, after having been hailed as … potential benefits, CCS development and deployment proceeded at a far slower rate than what was expected and are struggling to … explores the main progress and deadlocks in CCS’s difficult path. …

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Uncertain R&D, Backstop Technology and GHGs Stabilization

Bosetti, Valentina; Tavoni, Massimo - 2007

This paper analyses optimal investments in innovation when dealing with a stringent climate target and with the uncertain effectiveness of R&D. The innovation needed to achieve the deep cut in emissions is modelled by a backstop carbon-free technology whose cost depends on R&D investments. To...

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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012

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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Understanding the Consumption Behaviors on Electric Vehicles in China - A Stated Preference Analysis

Wu, Libo; Li, Changhe; Qian, Haoqi; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013

This paper examines how the different characteristics of both electric vehicles themselves and the consumers would influence the consumption behavior on electric vehicles. Data collection is based on the questionnaire design using the orthogonal experimental method and large-scale stated...

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Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China

Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014

Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the...

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Directed Technical Change With Capital-Embodied Technologies: Implications For Climate Policy

Lennox, James A.; Witajewski, Jan - 2014

We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....

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