Emission trading is considered to be a cost-effective environmental economic instrument for pollution control. However, the policy design of an emission trading program has a decisive impact on its performance. Allowance allocation is one of the most important policy design issues in emission...

Regional allowance allocation not only matters for regional economic efficiency but also for fairness between regions or companies. It is important to work out a fair and reasonable allocation method to achieve China's goal of the gross control of pollutant discharge. This research developed an...

Climate mitigation at the local level plays a highly important role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation. This research presents a summary of the local efforts in China’s ecological industrial parks (EIPs) to assess GHG emissions and identify potential mitigation measures. Through...

Although China has implemented many air pollution control policies, its air pollution problems remain severe with rapid economic development. The strategy of controlling single pollutant in one period and adding another in the next period (i.e., gradual control strategy) adopted in China has...

This paper analyzes the change of aggregated CO2 in China from 1957 to 2000 based on a complete decomposition approach—the logarithmic mean divisia index (LMDI) method. The study indicates that China has achieved a considerable decrease in its CO2 emissions mainly due to improved energy...