China's post-coal growth

Ye Qi, Nicholas Stern, Tong Wu, Jiaqi Lu and Fergus Green

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Abstract: Slowing GDP growth, a structural shift away from heavy industry, and more proactive policies on air pollution and clean energy have caused China's coal use to peak. It seems that economic growth has decoupled from growth in coal consumption.

Keywords: Climate-change mitigation; Energy efficiency; Energy supply and demand; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07-25
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Published in Nature Geoscience, 25, July, 2016, 9(8), pp. 564-566. ISSN: 1752-0894

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