China's President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao have recognized the seriousness of environmental degradation … in China, and accordingly insist that the conventional Chinese path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the … incorporated for the first time energy-saving and environmental goals into the national five-year economic blueprint in China 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 …

, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China opts for emissions trading, rather than …

stakeholders. Since the inception in 2000, the PCF has engaged in a dialogue with China to get it to sign up as a host country … (CDM) in China and feel the significant need for building CDM capacity in China to enable it to gain more insight into the … CDM and increase its capacity to initiate and undertake CDM projects. This paper first discusses why China had hesitated …

In international climate change negotiations, China’s role is an issue of perennial concern. In particular, the lack of … quantitative, absolute emissions commitments from China has been the focus. In line with changing domestic and international … contexts, China is recalibrating its stance and strategy. Its participation in international climate change negotiations has …

China’s unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation … China’s 30 provinces. It then employs a system generalized method of moments model to explore the determinants of their …

The regulated price mechanism in China’s power industry has attracted much criticism because of its incapability to …