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 …

China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China’s central government has been using to incentivize local …

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 …

Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a detailed overview of domestic policy instruments under SMM, this paper … econometric analysis. The data were collected from 113 respondents in all 11 prefecture-level cities of Shanxi province, China …

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 …

China’s unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both … the stringency issue, and given that China’s pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning … China’s statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China’s commitments differ in form from those of other major …

Just prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to … of whether such a pledge is ambitious or just represents business as usual. To put China’s climate pledge into … set in the current 11th five-year economic blueprint, to what extent it drives China’s emissions below its projected …

As an important step towards building a “harmonious society” through “scientific development”, China has incorporated … quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity by about three quarters between 1980 and 2000, China has had limited … the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative its 2005 levels to …

Putting a price on carbon is considered a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce … its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China’s grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and … market power of dominated players, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China turns to …