 Energy policies for managing China’s carbon emissionQiang Wang and Xi Chen Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015, vol. 50, issue C, 470-479 Abstract: The well-documented close relationship between economic growth and energy use indicates that the emergence of a country as an economic power cannot occur without increased in energy use. But just as the scale of China’s rise as an economic power has no clear parallel in history, its conflict between economic growth and energy use has also shattered all precedents. This planet’s future energy scenario hinges on the ability of this decoupling. The question this Policy Forum addressed is how to find the optimum way to accomplish this decoupling through government directive (government-centered command and control approaches, or CAC) or market forces (market-based instruments, or MBI). It concludes that market, rather than government can decide the optimum way to decouple China’s economic growth from energy use. Facilitating this decoupling driven by market force requires getting the prices right for energy. Keywords: China energy policy; Market-based instruments; Command and control approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:rensus:v:50:y:2015:i:c:p:470-479 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.05.033 Access Statistics for this article Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is currently edited by L. Kazmerski More articles in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews from Elsevier |
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