China’s role and contribution in the global governance of climate change: institutional adjustments for carbon tax introduction, collection and management in China

Deng, Haifeng; Farah, Paolo Davide

doi:10.1093/jwelb/jwv037

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“…This is because, as is shown in Figure A-1, unlike other climate change policies the CCD could drive the ETS on the basis of its own competences, without having to bargain extensively with other ministries in the initial stage of implementation (Conrad 2010;Li et al 2016). 9 By contrast, a carbon tax would have entailed sharing responsibilities with the Ministry of Finance and would hinge upon a reform of the resource and environmental tax system (Deng et al 2015). 10 Absent a climate change law that would clarify responsibilities, 11 the ETS allowed the NDRC to minimize these institutional turf wars and reinforce its authority simultaneously on the international and domestic fronts.…”

Section: China's Carbon Markets: Local Experiments Under the Spotlight Of International Climate Change Negotiationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regulatory Institutions and Market-Based Climate Policy in China

Goron¹,

Cassisa²

2017

Global Environmental Politics

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Domestic regulatory institutions are essential components of emissions trading systems (ETS). Not only do they shape the ways that markets operate, they also condition the environmental value of the carbon credits they produce. However, the literature on global carbon politics has paid little attention to local ETS regulators. In a decentralized system increasingly based on a noodle bowl of diversified environmental markets, the study of carbon markets must integrate the institutions in which they operate. This article focuses on China, which, due to its size, is both keen to and expected to have a significant impact on the global system of market-based instruments. We examine how China’s regulatory institutions have worked to implement the seven ETS pilots launched since 2012, and tease out some implications regarding how China’s national ETS may contribute to global climate change governance. In this study, we analyze both formal and informal regulatory institutions, through the practice of local actors. The main finding is that the tension between the state and markets in China’s ETS implementation has resulted in a reinforcement of state domination rather than the emergence of robust regulatory institutions. The contribution that the ETS makes to China’s emissions reduction is also limited by more pressing environmental and industrial policies that local regulators must prioritize. Local nonregulatory implementation practices could undermine the long-term objective to integrate China’s ETS with others under article 6 of the UNFCCC.

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Section: China's Carbon Markets: Local Experiments Under the Spotlight Of International Climate Change Negotiationsmentioning

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Regulatory Institutions and Market-Based Climate Policy in China

Goron¹,

Cassisa²

2017

Global Environmental Politics

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“…By 2017, hydro-power production reached about 36.6% of the total renewable energy and 26.4% of the total electric energy in China [14]. By 2013, the Chinese government has developed a plan to increase the work of electrical energy production by renewable energy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and environmental pollution that adversely affects the healthy life of the country and the citizen [15,16]. China currently aims to install 250 (GW) of wind and 50GW of solar photovoltaic by 2020 (see Table 1).…”

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Outlook of Renewable Energy (Wind Energy) in China

Yahya¹,

Kou²,

Wu³

2020

IJAERS

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China's rapidly growing economy, population, and energy consumption are all threatening its future environmental sustainability. China faces many ecological challenges, and its reliance on coal is at the heart of most of the country's ecological troubles. Most of China's air pollution emissions come from the industrial and electricity sectors, and the human health costs of China's air pollution are very high. China is the largest global polluter, with more than 25 per cent of total global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, green development could help mitigate climate change and enhance global welfare. Over the past decades, the demand for energy sources has increased by 150% in China, which has made China among the most energy-consuming countries. Most of China's energy consumption comes from coal energy, which accounts for about 78% of all energy sources in China in 2011. China is one of the world's largest wind energy sources, according to data released by the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), with about 34% of the world's wind energy sources. According to the road map implemented by the Chinese government by exploiting and generating wind energy sources and benefiting from the rapid economic development that China witnessed late, according to this plan by 2020, China is expected to produce about 250 gigawatts (GW). By 2030, production may reach 400 GW of electrical energy generated from wind energy, and by 2050, production may reach 1,000 GW.

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“…The practices in Europe have contributed to a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases with slightly negative impacts to economic growth (Andersen and Ekins, 2010). Several analyses of carbon tax policy in China were carried out currently, including macro-economic (Deng et al, 2015;Li and Jia, 2016;Tang et al, 2015) and micro-economic (Liu et al, 2015;Xu et al, 2016). Studies indicated that the carbon tax rate can range between 10-100 yuan/ton CO2 at the sector level in China (Wang et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%