As an important step towards building a “harmonious society” through “scientific development”, China has incorporated … quadrupling of its GDP while cutting its energy intensity by about three quarters between 1980 and 2000, China has had limited … the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative its 2005 levels to …

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 …

China had been the world's second largest carbon emitter for years. However, recent studies show that China had … overtaken the US as the world's largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world … community starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under the Bali roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on …

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 …

China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China's central government has been using to incentivize local …

Just prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to … of whether such a pledge is ambitious or just represents business as usual. To put China's climate pledge into … set in the current 11th five-year economic blueprint, to what extent it drives China's emissions below its projected …

China’s unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation … China’s 30 provinces. It then employs a system generalized method of moments model to explore the determinants of their …

. Based on the balanced panel data from2014 to 2018 from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)and by means of the fixed effects …

findings, we recommend that China should support the expansion of high-speed rail in order to reduce carbon emissions in a …

listed companies in China (2007 2019), this study uses the difference in differences (DID) method to examine the effects of …