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Clean energy policies for China: the case of ethanol
Neves, Marcos Fava - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 4, pp. 472-483
, the experience of Brazil in 40 years of usage of this fuel to the car fleet and recent developments are raised. Design …/methodology/approach – Traditional case study methodology is used to focus the analysis on the sugarcane industry in Brazil. This case study of this … Brazil and import to China. Research limitations/implications – The paper is a suggestion of policies, based on the …
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Drivers and Barriers for Renewable Energy Investments in Emerging Countries – The Case of Wind Energy in China, India and Brazil
Polzin, Friedemann; von den Hoff, Maximilian; Jung, … - 2015
institutional investors comparing wind energy investments in India, China and Brazil (as representatives of the BRICS countries) by …
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Umwelttechnikindustrie - Zukunftsmarkt China
Lichtenecker, Ruperta - 2006
China, das Reich der Mitte, ist mit schwerwiegenden Umweltproblemen konfrontiert die hohe Kosten verursachen. Mit der zunehmenden Anwendung der Umwelttechnik kann der Herausforderung diese Problemfelder zu beheben sinnvoll begegnet werden. Die Indikatoren Wirtschaftswachstum, notwendiger Schutz...
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Embedded interests and the managerial local state: methanol fuel-switching in China
Kostka, Genia; Hobbs, William - 2010
This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and development support with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucratic reforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipal governments have...
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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Assessing China's energy conservation and carbon intensity: how will the future differ from the past?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
As an important step towards building a 'harmonious society' through 'scientific development', China has incorporated for the first time in its five-year economic plan an energy input indicator as a constraint. While it achieved a quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity by...
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In what format and under what timeframe would China take on climate commitments? A roadmap to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
In what format and under what timeframe China would take on climate commitments is of significant relevance to China because it is facing great pressure both inside and outside international climate negotiations to exhibit greater ambition and is being confronted with the threats of trade...
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China in the transition to a low-carbon economy
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
China, from its own perspective cannot afford to, and from an international perspective, is not allowed to continue on the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. The country needs to transform its economy to effectively address concern about a range...
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Is it fair to treat China as a christmas tree to hang everybody's complaints? Putting its own energy saving into perspective
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2009
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...
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Breaking the impasse in international climate negotiations: A new direction for currently flawed negotiations and a roadmap for China to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011
China's unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both the stringency issue, and given that China's pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning China's statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as...
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