Kahrl, Fredrich; Roland-Holst, David; Zilberman, David - In: Energy Economics 36 (2013) C, pp. 759-771
From 2002 to 2009, China's energy use nearly doubled, making it the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide more than … a decade ahead of forecasts. Why did energy use in China rise so rapidly after 2002? Using index decomposition analysis …, we find that the vast majority of growth in energy consumption in China over the 2000s was due to GDP growth, with a …