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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the … environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and …
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The Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010. Implementing reform has resulted in significant progress that includes unbundling and...
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …
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International trade has been playing an extremely significant role in China over the last 20 years. This paper is aimed … at investigating and understanding the relationship between China's macro-economy and oil price fromthis newperspective …. We find strong evidence to suggest that the increase of China's price level, resulting fromoil price shocks, is …
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Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a detailed overview of domestic policy instruments under SMM, this paper … econometric analysis. The data were collected from 113 respondents in all 11 prefecture-level cities of Shanxi province, China …
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Putting a price on carbon is considered a crucial step for China's endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce … its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China's grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and … market power of dominated players, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China turns to …
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China's global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention … and scrutiny. This is partly because of China's own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies … energy security as a result of misconceptions and misunderstandings of China's quest for energy security both inside 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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Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an …, of the mechanism underlining China’s economic transition from an investment-driven, pollution-intensive to an investment … incorporated into China’s growth mechanism, then at some tipping point in time when marginal welfare gain of R&D for knowledge …
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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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