China’s rampant environmental pollution problems and rising greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change … are undermining its long-term economic growth. China, from its own perspective cannot afford to and, from an international … sparked China’s determination to improve energy efficiency and cut pollutants, and to increase the use of clean energy in …

Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. Given the paramount importance of cities, China is practicing low … characteristics of China's LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China's LCC development …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and … in China's trade differ, both single country studies for China and global studies show a hefty chunk of China's CO2 … emissions embedded in trade. This portion of CO2 emissions had helped to turn China into the world's largest carbon emitter, and …

In what format and under what timeframe China would take on climate commitments is of significant relevance to China … is being confronted with the threats of trade measures. It is of significant global relevance as well because when China …'s emissions peak is crucial to determine when global emissions would peak and because what China is going to do in what format has …

China, from its own perspective cannot afford to, and from an international perspective, is not allowed to continue on … discusses China's own efforts towards energy saving and pollutants cutting, the widespread use of renewable energy and … participation in clean development mechanism, and puts carbon reductions of China's unilateral actions into perspective. Given that …