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Many new and ambitious energy efficiency and conservation laws are being enacted at all levels of government - and with greater financial incentives than provided previously. These innovations are intended to overcome or minimize market barriers such as principal-agent problems, information and...
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To achieve the commitments to both carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, China should focus on those policies of … regions with low levels of development and technology in China. …
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Energy security is a burning issue in a world where 1.4 billion people still have no access to electricity. This pioneering book is about finding solutions for energy security through the international trading system. Focusing mainly on the European Union (EU) as a case study, this holistic and...
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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 China's commitments differ in form from those of other major …
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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 China's commitments differ in form from those of other major …
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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 China’s commitments differ in form from that of other major …
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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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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 achieve … areas for JI projects that may be in China's interest. This discussion underlines that taking due consideration of local …
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This article gives an assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of a variety of economic modelling approaches commonly used for cost estimates of limiting carbon emissions. The approaches discussed include the ad hoc approach, dynamic optimization approach, input-output approach,...
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The iron and steel industry is one of the most carbon emitting and energy consuming sectors in Europe. At the same time this sector is of high economic importance for the European Union. Therefore, while public environmental and energy policies target this sector, there is political concern that...
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