To achieve sustainable development, the focus on power system efficiency should move from analysis of just economic benefits to environmental efficiency studies that assess both economic benefits and carbon emissions. Therefore, balancing the development of different generation forms is a...

The cement industry is the second-largest CO2 emitting industrial sector in China, and it is faced with increasing worldwide criticism to pressure China to reduce its CO2 emissions to acceptable level. In this study, the effects of potential technological improvement to China’s cement industry...

Chinese government has committed to reduce its carbon intensity by 40–45% over the period 2005–2020 at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit. To achieve the target in a cost-effective way, China is signaling strong intentions to establish emissions trading scheme, and presently seven pilots have been...

This paper analyzes the evolution characteristics of the international natural gas trade structure and the integration of the international natural gas market by using complex network theory. It is found that both the LNG and pipeline gas import and export trade networks display scale-free...

This paper establishes a carbon capture and storage (CCS) investment evaluation model based on real options theory considering uncertainties from the existing thermal power generating cost, carbon price, thermal power with CCS generating cost, and investment in CCS technology deployment. The...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which has been considering one of the effective carbon reduction options, is induced in the self-constructed aggregated economic technological model in this paper, and the development potential of CCS under the given climate policies is depicted. We...