The paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China, presenting historical data and scenarios generated … Economies Forum in July 2009. -- Climate Change ; China ; Energy Efficiency ; Energy and Development …

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 …

In what format and under what timeframe China would take on climate commitments is of significant relevance to China … is being confronted with the threats of trade measures. It is of significant global relevance as well because when China …’s emissions peak is crucial to determine when global emissions would peak and because what China is going to do in what format has …

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 had been the world's second largest carbon emitter for years. However, recent studies show that China had … overtaken the US as the world's largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world … community starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under the Bali roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on …

Existing studies have focused on the negative impact of inefficient resource allocation on energy performance in China … impact of market segmentation on China's energy efficiency. The results show that although energy efficiency in the eastern … indicates that market segmentation is negative to China's energy efficiency significantly. This finding remains robust even if …

manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

enterprises in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a major centre of foreign-invested export industry in China. The paper starts with a … brief review of the occupational health and safety legislation in China. The authors analyse a database comprising more than … legal situation of occupational health in China and the practical situation of occupational injuries as experienced by …