Goals to mitigate climate change are to be achieved through government strategies and policies, as well as the availability of low-carbon technologies, and are subject to the underlying institutional, political, economic, and other factors that promote or constrain progress and the path taken. A...

As China has shifted from a planned to a market-oriented economy, it has adjusted its energy policies accordingly. As a result, the Chinese energy industry has now gone through more than seventy years of transformation. Yet to date no single work has sought to assess the key factors driving...