Energy and environmental policy in China
Subtitle: towards a low-carbon economy
By: ZhongXiang Zhang
Series: New horizons in environmental economics; New horizons in environmental economics
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781848445468
Subjects: Environmental policy; Energy policy
Description: "'Energy and Environmental Policy in China represents the culmination of Zhang's ideas on the subject over the last decade. This book's main goal is to create a policy time line for China's future carbon emission reductions by the middle of the 21st century. In addition, Zhang wishes to document the considerable strides in increasing energy efficiency made by China in the past several decades. The book does answer crucial questions relating to China's carbon policies and presents a reasoned way forward for China in international negotiations.'- Richard Louis Edmonds, The China Quarterly"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Effective environmental protection in the context of government decentralization; title: Is it fair to treat China as a Christmas tree to hang everybody's complaints? : putting its own energy saving into perspective; title: Assessing China's carbon intensity pledge for 2020 : stringency and credibility issues and their implications; title: In what format and under what time frame would China take on climate commitments? : a roadmap to 2050; title: The US proposed carbon tariffs, WTO scrutiny and China's responses; title: Conclusions: China in the transition to a low-carbon economy.