Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

Yoshida, Fumikazu; Mori, Akihisa

doi:10.4324/9781315695860

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“…The UK, as the global advocate and pioneer in low-carbon economy development, not only focused on solving its domestic carbon emissions reduction and alternative transition problems but also actively promoted the low-carbon economy development worldwide (Department of Trade and Industry 2006;HM Government 2009a, b). In addition, Japan also attached great importance to a low-carbon economy, mainly focusing on promoting energy and environmental technology research and development (Yoshida and Mori 2015). China also actively responded to lowcarbon development (LCD) by adjusting the industrial structure, improving energy efficiency and developing clean and renewable energy, etc.…”

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Evaluating the low-carbon development of urban China

Liu

2016

Environ Dev Sustain

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Facing the ever-increasing serious pollution from carbon emission and the pressing need for sustainable development, China initiated the strategy of low-carbon development in 2010. Since then, eight cities and five provinces have been selected as pilot areas to develop a low-carbon economy. Under such a circumstance, this study aimed to construct a indicator system and evaluating model so that the low-carbon development levels of the pilot cities can be quantified. Therefore, this study, based the on Driving ForcePressure-State-Impact-Response model, established a regional low-carbon development indicator system. Second, the weight of each indicator was calculated by taking the entropy method. Third, the low-carbon development levels were measured and evaluated by taking the comprehensive approach of Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution. Then, taking 10 cities from those 13 pilot areas as case studies, this study measured and compared the low-carbon development levels of those 10 cities before and after being pilot areas. The research findings showed that though the low-carbon development levels changed greatly, only five pilot cities' growth rate is positive. The reasons for changes in the low-carbon development levels were analyzed. The urbanization level and energy consumption elasticity coefficient were the main factors affecting the low-carbon development levels. Additionally, the study traced the effective policies hidden behind the indicators, which provided policy insights to help decision makers prepare their low-carbon development strategies, including legislation efforts, economic instrument, renewable energy and energy-saving technology improvement and low-carbon transportation.

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Evaluating the low-carbon development of urban China

Liu

2016

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…In response, an increasing number of countries perceive RE industry as a new engine of economic growth (Mori and Takehara, 2018). Economic concerns might also have played a role in the penetration of RE (Song, 2015). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has set the "green growth" as the agenda for attaining mitigation of climate change or sustainability and the economic growth simultaneously, and RE is placed in "environmental industry" (Jänicke, 2012) that can generate increasing returns (Mathews, 2012).…”

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China's Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia's Energy Transition

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2021

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This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China's carbonenergy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of renewable energy technologies.China shows a co-evolution of carbon-energy policy and energy transitions from coal to renewables. Assessing how the policy intensifies pressures and motivations to Chinese companies, chapters in this edited volume analyse how the policy has changed energy and CO 2 emissions in Asia through the lens of carbon leakage, relocation, and halos. Contributors present indepth studies on China's investments and exports, and also its impacts on Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Japan. Using applied computable general equilibrium and scenario input-output analyses, chapters investigate if regional electricity connectivity reduces new coal power investments through efficiency gain. Arguing that China is shifting from the world's factory to the leading innovator and Asia's demand centre, it is ultimately demonstrated that China is likely to achieve climate targets whereas Asia to increase CO 2 emissions and economic reliance on China.China's Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia's Energy Transition will be of significant interest to students and scholars of energy, environment, and sustainability studies, as well as Chinese studies and economics.

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