1st Edition
China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy
By David Toke
Copyright 2017
168 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world’s population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions. The aims of the Paris Agreement may stand or fall with China, both for its own contribution and the example it will set the developing world.
China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions discusses the prospects for China achieving radical... Read more
- Introduction
- An ecological modernisation theory for China and Carbon Reduction
- Curbing the concrete
- Carbon emissions and energy consumption
- Pollution – From Protest to good governance?
- Fuel switching to cut carbon
- Conclusion
Biography
David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics at the University of Aberdeen’s Department of Politics and International Relations. He is Co-ordinator of the MSc Programme in Energy Politics and Law.
