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The Energy and CO2 Emissions Impact of Renewable Energy Development in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2013-04)
China’s recently-adopted targets for developing renewable electricity—wind, solar, and biomass—would require expansion on an unprecedented scale in China and relative to existing global installations. An important question ...
Applying Engineering and Fleet Detail to Represent Passenger Vehicle Transport in a Computable General Equilibrium Model
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-04)
A well-known challenge in computable general equilibrium (CGE) models is to maintain correspondence between the forecasted economic and physical quantities over time. Maintaining such a correspondence is necessary to ...
Scaling Compliance with Coverage? Firm-level Performance in China’s Industrial Energy Conservation Program
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-10)
Industrial energy conservation programs in China form a cornerstone of China’s energy and environmental management efforts, engaging thousands of major energy-using enterprises, and targeting hundreds of million tons of ...
An Integrated Assessment of China’s Wind Energy Potential
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-04)
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models seeking to evaluate the impacts of electricity policy face difficulties incorporating detail on the variable nature of renewable energy resources. To improve the accuracy of ...
Synergy between Pollution and Carbon Emissions Control: Comparing China and the U.S.
(MIT Joint Program, 2013-10)
We estimate the potential synergy between pollution and climate control in the U.S. and China, summarizing the results as emissions cross-elasticities of control. We set a range of NOx and SO2 targets, and record the ...
Modeling the Income Dependence of Household Energy Consumption and its Implications for Climate Policy in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2017-07)
We estimate Engel Curves based on Chinese household microdata and show in general equilibrium simulations that they imply substantially lower energy demand and CO2 emissions, relative to projections based on standard ...
The Impact of Coordinated Policies on Air Pollution Emissions from Road Transportation in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-07)
Improving air quality across mainland China is an urgent policy challenge. While much of the problem is linked to China’s broader reliance on coal and other fossil fuels across the energy system, road transportation is an ...
Equity and Emissions Trading in China
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-02)
China has embarked on an ambitious pathway for establishing a national carbon market in the next five to ten years. In this study, we analyze the distributional aspects of a Chinese emissions-trading scheme from ethical, ...
Consumption-Based Adjustment of China's Emissions-Intensity Targets: An Analysis of its Potential Economic Effects
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2013-03)
China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015) aims to achieve a national carbon intensity reduction of 17% through differentiated targets at the provincial level. Allocating the national target among China’s provinces is ...
The Future Energy and GHG Emissions Impact of Alternative Personal Transportation Pathways in China
(Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-10)
A major uncertainty in future energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions projections for China is
the evolution of demand for personal transportation modes. This paper explores the implications of
divergent personal ...