This paper examines the driving forces for reducing China’s CO2 emission intensity between 1998 and 2008, utilizing the … intensity of GDP, and energy intensity of GDP for other activities were mainly responsible for the success in reducing China … contributed the most to China’s improvements in CO2 emission intensity. …

dioxide emission intensity among a panel of 30 provinces in China over the period 1990-2010. We use a novel, spatial dynamic …) CO2 emission intensities are converging across provinces in China; (2) the rate of convergence is higher with the dynamic …

China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental … pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels … other costs and reduce well-being. The 12th Five Year Plan aims at further reducing pollution and at other environmental …