Peak of CO2 emissions in various sectors and provinces of China: Recent progress and avenues for further research

J Jiang, B Ye, J Liu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Whether China can prevent its CO 2 emissions from increasing by 2030 is critical for
achieving the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming below 2° C. Understanding …

Sustainable energy transitions in China: Renewable options and impacts on the electricity system

X Sun, B Zhang, X Tang, BC McLellan, M Höök - Energies, 2016 - mdpi.com
Chinese energy consumption has been dominated by coal for decades, but this needs to
change to protect the environment and mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Renewable …

A bottom-up model to estimate the energy efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction potentials in the Chinese iron and steel industry

A Hasanbeigi, W Morrow, J Sathaye, E Masanet, T Xu - Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
China's annual crude steel production in 2010 was 638.7 Mt accounting for nearly half of the
world's annual crude steel production in the same year. Around 461 TWh of electricity and …

[HTML][HTML] Making or breaking climate targets: The AMPERE study on staged accession scenarios for climate policy

E Kriegler, K Riahi, N Bauer, VJ Schwanitz… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study explores a situation of staged accession to a global climate policy regime from the
current situation of regionally fragmented and moderate climate action. The analysis is …

Future energy use and CO2 emissions of urban passenger transport in China: A travel behavior and urban form based approach

P Li, P Zhao, C Brand - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Work on comparing cities in terms of their transport energy consumption and CO 2
emissions in the urban passenger transport sector has rarely been done using detailed …

Energy efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction opportunities in the cement industry in China

A Hasanbeigi, W Morrow, E Masanet, J Sathaye, T Xu - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
China's annual cement production (ie, 1868Mt) in 2010 accounted for nearly half of the
world's annual cement production in the same year. We identified and analyzed 23 energy …

Building stock dynamics and its impacts on materials and energy demand in China

L Hong, N Zhou, W Feng, N Khanna, D Fridley, Y Zhao… - Energy Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
China hosts a large amount of building stocks, which is nearly 50 billion square meters.
Moreover, annual new construction is growing fast, representing half of the world's total. The …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding China's past and future energy demand: An exergy efficiency and decomposition analysis

PE Brockway, JK Steinberger, JR Barrett, TJ Foxon - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
There are very few useful work and exergy analysis studies for China, and fewer still that
consider how the results inform drivers of past and future energy consumption. This is …

Quantification of Chinese steel cycle flow: Historical status and future options

P Wang, Z Jiang, X Geng, S Hao, X Zhang - Resources, Conservation and …, 2014 - Elsevier
China is the largest steel producer and consumer around the world. Quantifying the Chinese
steel flow from cradle to grave can assist this industry to fully understand its historical status …

Quantifying the potential impacts of China's power-sector policies on coal input and CO2 emissions through 2050: A bottom-up perspective

NZ Khanna, N Zhou, D Fridley, J Ke - Utilities Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
This study evaluates four recent policies for China's power sector—mandatory renewable
targets, green dispatch, carbon capture and sequestration development, and coal-fired …