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Energy use in China [electronic resource] : interpreting changing trends and future directions / Peter Sheehan and Fiona Sun
Bib ID 5465571
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline
Author
Sheehan, P. J. (Peter James), 1940-
 
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Description Melbourne : Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, 2007 
Series

Climate change working paper ; no. 13.

PANDORA electronic collection.

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Mode of access: Internet via the World Wide Web. Address as at 22/07/2011: http://www.cfses.com/publish/papers_climate.htm. 

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Summary

Energy use grew at only half the rate of GDP growth in China over 1980-2001, but has grown faster than GDP over 2001-06. This paper explores the reasons for that change, and its implications for China’s future energy use and energy policy. Based on the existing literature and a new decomposition analysis, we find that structural change increased energy use over the whole period. But sectoral energy intensities fell sharply over 1980-2000, mainly due to strong incentives for technical change and increased energy efficiency in a command economy with energy rationing, supplemented by rising relative energy prices in the 1990s. With the command economy mechanisms supplanted by the reforms of the late 1990s and rapid growth in energy intensive industries after entry to the WTO in 2001, China has reverted to the normal developing economy case of an elasticity of over one. Based on a simple projection model, we find that, on the policies in force in 2005, China’s energy use and CO2 emissions from fuel combustion are likely to grow by more than 6% per annum over 2005-30. But the Government is now actively implementing a wide range of policies to reduce the growth in energy use. Our simulations indicate that achieving major reductions will be difficult, but that a sustained policy process involving use of the full range of instruments could reduce China’s energy use and CO2 emissions by 35-40% by 2030.

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Title from title screen (viewed on 22 July 2011)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-23)

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Frequency 23 p 
Subjects Energy consumption - China.  |  China  |  Climate change (Anthropogenic)  |  Energy policy  |  Energy consumption  |  Economic development  |  Gross domestic product  |  Statistics  |  Trends to 2005  |  Trends to 2030
Other authors/contributors Sun, Fiona  |  Victoria University of Technology. Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

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