This paper examines the impacts of the proposed carbon-based border tax adjustments (BTAs) on China’s trade, based on a … up to the year 2030. Distinct from previous single China country models, our model disaggregates foreign accounts of … China into four regions, including USA and the EU, to enable to examine the effects of re-routing trade flows. The results …

Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China’s own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its carbon … open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other side, the inclusion of … imported products. Being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs to, at a right time, indicate a …

China, from its own perspective cannot afford to, and from an international perspective, is not allowed to continue on … discusses China’s own efforts towards energy saving and pollutants cutting, the widespread use of renewable energy and … participation in clean development mechanism, and puts carbon reductions of China’s unilateral actions into perspective. Given that …

change to the change in China’s energy consumption in the 1980s. However, no detailed analysis to date has been done to … filled this gap by investigating the change in energy consumption in China’s industrial sector in the 1990s, based on the … growth rate dramatically in line with the belief that the growth rate of China’s GDP may be overestimated. …

AIJ/JI remains virtually unknown to the majority of social and economic sectors in China as in most developing countries …, it is still unrealistic to expect that AIJ/JI projects with China work as smoothly and fast as the developed countries … wish. This underlines the need to promote JI through pilot projects in China's interest and capacity building in China in …

carbon emission limits for China, this paper provides the economic rationale for the industrialized countries to invest in JI … projects in developing countries like China, where the costs of abating greenhouse gas emissions are lower than trying to … areas for JI projects that may be in China's interest. This discussion underlines that taking due consideration of local …

China is concerned about the security of its sea-lanes for imports and desires to diversify its oil supplies from the … Middle East in order to sustain economic growth. These concerns have sparked China’s interest in trying to ensure oil … supplies from as many sources as possible and in reducing its overwhelming reliance on seaborne imports of oil, which, in China …

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 …

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 …

China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations … paper provides some reflections on China’s stance and reactions at Copenhagen. While China’s reactions are generally well … rooted because of realities at home, some reactions could have been handled more effectively for a better image of China. The …