 Employment impacts of a ‘green’ energy transition in ChinaSara Hsu and Shelley Nauss China Economic Journal, 2009, vol. 2, issue 2, 219-237 Abstract: Before the US financial crisis that began in 2008, China was the ‘factory’ of the world, utilizing energy intensively for such processes as steelmaking, papermaking and concrete production. As such, energy emissions in China increased dramatically until 2007, with much of the energy being provided by the labor-intensive coal industry. Under the 11th five-year plan, China resolved to increase its energy efficiency, setting out to reduce energy consumption while continuing to increase economic growth, and to increase the usage of ‘green’ technologies to 15% of all energy used by 2020. The Renewable Energy Law of 2007 set a guideline for China's energy reduction goals, to quadruple the national GDP while only doubling the country's electricity usage by the year 2020. Currently, there are virtually no studies on the employment effects of a ‘green’ transition to explore what impact the current energy goals, or potentially ‘greener’ energy goals, would have on China's labor force. This paper seeks to analyze the effects on employment of a ‘green’ transition. Date: 2009 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rcejxx:v:2:y:2009:i:2:p:219-237 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/17538960903083533 Access Statistics for this article China Economic Journal is currently edited by Tiechang Gao and Yiping Huang More articles in China Economic Journal from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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