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China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community’s perspective, it cannot afford to … development. Specifically, to meet the grand goal involves not only capping China’s nationwide coal consumption to let it peak … arguing why China’s anti-pollution outcomes this time might be different from the previous ones. …
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The decoupling of energy-related carbon emissions from economic growth has been mostly driven by reductions of the energy intensity of GDP, which can be attributed either to changes in countries' economic structure or within-sector energy-efficiency improvements. One question is whether observed...
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In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art and common practice of energy and climate modeling vis-à-vis the rebound literature, in particular regarding how macroeconomic energy and climate models quantify and include energy and greenhouse gas rebound effects. First, we focus on rebound...
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This study develops a scenario-based model to assess the current and future trends in energy demand in Africa and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Future energy demand is forecast on the basis of socio-economic variables such as gross domestic product, income per capita, population, and...
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(CGE) model to estimate the impacts of the BTAs implemented by US and EU on China's sectoral carbon emissions. The results …
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China’s capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and … in China’s trade differ, both single country studies for China and global studies show a hefty chunk of China’s CO2 … emissions embedded in trade. This portion of CO2 emissions had helped to turn China into the world’s largest carbon emitter, and …
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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 …
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technology to do this is carbon capture and storage (CCS). China simultaneously presents the most challenging and critical test … for CCS deployment at scale. While China has begun an handful of marquee CCS demonstration projects, the stark reality to … be explored in this paper is that China’s incentives for keeping on the forefront of CCS technology learning do not …
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What has been done and what could be expected from China in combating global climate change is an issue of perennial …, economic growth and population expansion to China's CO2 emissions during the period 1980-1997, the article first demonstrates … that the criticism on China being a "free-rider" enjoying benefits from other countries' efforts to abate greenhouse gas …
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With large shares in global trade and carbon emissions, China's international trade is supposed to be significantly … and EU on China's international trade, based on a multi-sector dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The … simulation results suggest that BTAs would have a negative impact on China's international trade in terms of large losses in both …
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