Determinants of stagnating carbon intensity in China

By D. Guan, S. Klasen, Klaus Hubacek, Kuishuang Feng, Zhu Liu, Ke-Cheng He, Yong Geng, Qiang Zhang. 2014

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A systematic analysis shows that China’s climate policy on carbon intensity reduction may not help all Chinese regions to become more efficient and could actually lock the whole nation into a long-term emission-intensive economic structure.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering

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Growth in Environmental Footprints and Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Resource Efficiency Indicators from EXIOBASE3 (2018, background): “On the one hand, these infrastructure-related activities slow down the reduction in pollution intensity in emerging countries, such as China (Guan et al. 2014).”
China's changing economy: implications for its carbon dioxide emissions (2016, background): “…that resulted in large amounts of bank debt being accumulated by local governments and commercial enterprises to finance investment, especially in property construction and infrastructure, in turn stimulating demand for heavy-industrial products like steel and cement (Guan et al., 2014, p. 1019).”
Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options (2020, background): “Large-scale investments in energyintensive industries and infrastructure have been shown to counter-balance and even outweigh the sectoral carbon efficiency gains, especially in fastdeveloping countries [119, 120].”