type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Copper (Cu) is an essential but supply-restricted resource in China. Characterization of in-use stocks can provide useful instruction for the future recycling of copper. This article attempts to estimate copper in-use stocks in a Chinese city. To this purpose,...</p>

Although China has implemented many air pollution control policies, its air pollution problems remain severe with rapid economic development. The strategy of controlling single pollutant in one period and adding another in the next period (i.e., gradual control strategy) adopted in China has...

Water pollution trading (WPT) is considered a cost-effective policy instrument for controlling water pollution. Since the late 1990s the Chinese government has piloted WPT programs at different levels in an attempt to reduce water pollution. However, the implementation of WPT programs has not...

China faces the dual challenges of climate change and increased energy demand. These challenges in turn increase the demand for wind energy development. Along with rapid growth in manufacturing capacity, Chinese companies have aspired to increase their innovation capacity in order to enhance...

Climate mitigation at the local level plays a highly important role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation. This research presents a summary of the local efforts in China’s ecological industrial parks (EIPs) to assess GHG emissions and identify potential mitigation measures. Through...

Emission trading is considered to be a cost-effective environmental economic instrument for pollution control. However, the policy design of an emission trading program has a decisive impact on its performance. Allowance allocation is one of the most important policy design issues in emission...

Regional allowance allocation not only matters for regional economic efficiency but also for fairness between regions or companies. It is important to work out a fair and reasonable allocation method to achieve China's goal of the gross control of pollutant discharge. This research developed an...