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Who should bear the cost of China's carbon emissions embodied in goods for exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the Chinese people out of poverty, but also has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303801
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238315
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203427
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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 … discusses broad policy options to address competitiveness and leakage concerns, and compares which anti-leakage policy, border …. -- Emission Trading ; Competitiveness ; Carbon Leakage ; Emissions Allowance Requirements ; Carbon Tariffs ; Border Carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634265
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Can climate policy enhance sustainability?
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Davide, Marinella; … - 2013
Implementing an effective climate policy is one of the main challenges for our future. Even though ambitious mitigation targets are necessarily costly, curbing GHG emissions can prevent future irreversible impacts of climate change on human kind and the environment. Climate policy is therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702197
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Quantifying sustainability : a new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687350
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Do global financial markets capitalise sustainability? : evidence of a quick reversal
Moliterni, Fabio - 2018
This study investigates the growing importance of sustainability in financial markets by estimating the extent of capitalisation of companies' commitment to sustainability on their market value. The spreading concern for social and environmental issues, and especially for the material risks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862953
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Assessing China's energy conservation and carbon intensity : how will the future differ from the past?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: May 24, 2010
As an important step towards building a "harmonious society" through "scientific development", China has incorporated for the first time in its five-year economic plan an energy input indicator as a constraint. While it achieved a quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008735768
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Assessing China's carbon intensity pledge for 2020 : stringency and credibility issues and their implications
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: July 2010
Just prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels to help to reach an international climate change agreement at Copenhagen or beyond. This raises the issue of whether such a pledge is ambitious or just represents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780422
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Making China the transition to a low-carbon economy : key challenges and responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2015
China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community’s perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391849