Border carbon adjustment (BCA) has had a high profile in climate and trade talks, due to differences between the EU and China. Much of the debate has revolved around the possibility of EU taxation on Chinese exported products in order to both avoid carbon leakage and support the EU's unilateral...

In recent years, export value-added tax (VAT) refund rebate and export tax (EVRRET) measures have been adopted for energy-intensive products in China. They are proclaimed to be climate policy, yet there is no explicit and unique carbon cost set on export, and the implicit export carbon tax rates...

type="main" xml:id="rssc12036-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>The paper considers data from an aphid infestation on a sugar cane plantation and illustrates the use of an individual level infectious disease model for making inference on the biological process underlying these data. The data are interval...</p>

Stainless steel mesh (SSM) with four opening sizes (20–80M) were investigated as matrixes of activated carbon air–cathodes in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The highest power density of 2151±109mWm−2 (at 5.54±0.14Am−2) was obtained using 40M, with a value 45% higher than 1485±18mWm−2...

If buildings can change “clothes” according to seasons like human being, the energy consumption for their space heating or cooling will be saved greatly. For this purpose, the thermophysical properties of building external wall should be self-adjusted according to outdoor temperature. In...

We use a dynamic CGE model (SICGE) to assess the economic and climate impacts of emissions trading system (ETS) in China with a carbon price of 100 Yuan/ton CO2. A particular focus is given to the regulated electricity price regime, which is a major concern of electricity sector’s...

We examine the challenges and opportunities to introduce emissions trading (ETS) in China’s electricity sector, in which the interaction between ETS and electricity market reform plays a major role. China’s electricity sector is currently in a slow progress towards a more competitive and...

While ever-growing bio-ethanol production poses considerable challenges to the bioenergy supply chain, the risk of refinery operation disruptions further compromises the efficiency and reliability of the energy supply system. This paper applies discrete and continuous reliable facility location...

Density functional theory, high-level model chemistry at G3(MP2), CBS-Q, G3//B3LYP, G3(QCI) and QCISD(T)/aug-cc-pv5z levels of theory combined with statistical thermodynamics have been employed to explore the thermodynamic properties of gaseous SiC(X 3Π) and SiC(a 1Σ). The heat capacities...

The highly detailed international trade data among all countries in the world during 1971–2000 shows that the kinds of export goods and the logarithmic GDP (gross domestic production) of a country have an S-shaped relationship. This indicates that all countries can be divided into three stages...