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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...
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In creating a level playing field that facilitates the deployment of renewable energy technology (RET), the traditional … energy policy regime based on eliminating RET's cost gaps versus fossil energy technology (FET) may be not sufficient …. Building on an economic model of energy technology adoption that features network externality, this paper takes an explicit …
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energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and … difficulty in further carbon mitigation, inevitable emissions growth due to rising living standards, and coal-dominant energy … carbon a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce its energy consumption and carbon …
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Introduction -- I Sustainability Economics and Resources -- II International Analysis -- III Rebound Effects in Economics -- IV Modelling the Use of Resources in Economies -- V Outlook on Sustainable Resource Management
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: First, further credible energy-conservation commitments starting 2013 and aimed at cutting China’s carbon intensity by 45 … recognizing China’s growing responsibility for increasing greenhouse gas emissions as China is approaching the world’s largest … economy. -- Carbon Intensity Target ; Binding Emissions Caps ; Post-Copenhagen Climate Negotiations ; Energy Saving …
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In creating a level playing field that facilitates the deployment of renewable energy technology (RET), the traditional … energy policy regime based on eliminating RET's cost gaps versus fossil energy technology (FET) may be not sufficient …. Building on an economic model of energy technology adoption that features network externality, this paper takes an explicit …
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Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an … investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and …, of the mechanism underlining China’s economic transition from an investment-driven, pollution-intensive to an investment …
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perspective that focuses on capital accumulation with investment irreversibility. We show that if 1) direct irreversibility of … investment does not rule out the indirect channel of converting dirty capital goods into clean ones through final goods … environmental regulation, through directing investment towards clean capital, does not necessarily leads to asset stranding of dirty …
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Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an … investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and …, of the mechanism underlining China's economic transition from an investment-driven, pollution-intensive to an investment …
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Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an … investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and …, of the mechanism underlining China's economic transition from an investment-driven, pollution-intensive to an investment …
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